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This is a guide to how thermostats should be used, to ensure they function properly and that your Dragons are protected from overheating etc.
Because of the temperatures involved in a Dragon cage, some of the principles behind the use of thermostats are a little different to using them for species which require somewhat cooler cages, such as snakes and geckos.
Once the basic principles are understood, much more elaborate - but safe - lighting setups can be used to really recreate a slice of nature in your living room!
A thermostat ("stat") is used to control the temperature of a cage. It works by adjusting the power to your heating device to keep the temperature by your probe (or the box itself if you have a probeless one) to the temperature you set the thermostat to.
They really are that simple in principle - you set the temperature you want, and a correctly set up thermostat will do all the work to keep the cage how you want it. The problem is that there are several different types of thermostat, and several different ways to heat a cage...
"Mat Stat"
This turns the power
off when the desired temperature is hit, then turn the power
back on when the temperature falls a certain amount below
what it's set to (the "on threshold" value). Depending on
the stat, this can be a few degrees. If you set the stat to
85f, and it had a 3f sensitivity, the temperature would go:
85f -> 82f -> 85f and so on. On-off stats are commonly used
to regulate central heating in rooms in your house. The
reptile-branded ones aren't terribly accurate, but they do
the job just fine for a non-light-emitting heat source
that's intended to provide gentle ambient heat.
"Pulse Proportional"
This sends power to the device in
pulses, rather than being simple on for a while, then off
for a while, then on for a while, then off for a while etc.
They are usually used with ceramics - if used with a light
bulb, they will cause the bulb to flash on and off fairly
quickly. They are usually much more accurate than Mat Stats
though, and are useful for non-light-emitting heat sources
that need to provide constant high temperatures near to the
heat source, as in a basking spot heated by a Ceramic Heat
These reduce the power to the heat source (but
don't turn it off completely) when the desired temperature
is approached. They are commonly used with lightbulbs.
Compared to the other types of thermostat, they prolong the
life of a bulb by not switching it on and off, and cause
less confusion to your pet as the light levels don't
drastically and rapidly change.
For an animal that requires a
temperature gradient, a stat should be seen as a safety
feature, NOT a control device. For an animal that needs a
single ambient temperature it's slightly different, but for
an animal wanting a gradient, they should not be used to
control the warm end temperatures.
A stat is fitted to ensure that there is always a cool end to retreat to. There's a reason why most only go up to 92f; they weren't intended to be directly controlling 110f bearded dragon basking spots!
If a Bearded Dragon (or any other diurnal basking reptile) gets too hot, it will seek a cool area to cool off in. If you have your stat right under the basking light, set to 92f and it's a hot day, the rest of the vivarium may get to 92f, as there will be very little heat loss due to there only being a small thermal gradient to the rest of the room. If your Dragon has been basking and has got itself up to 100f (desired temperature is 93-96f, depending on the individual) and tries to cool off, it will take a very long time to lose heat with only an 8f difference, even in the cool end. Staying at too high a temperature for a prolonged period is not good for them - when they want to cool off, they have to be able to do it quickly! A cool end of 80-85f gives a 15-20f gradient for heat loss; this will allow much faster cooling (read up on thermodynamics if you want to know why...)
The stat / probe needs to be in the cool end, to ensure that, even on the hottest day, there is somewhere to cool off. A Dragon that is too cool on a particular day will just slow down a little, but won't be otherwise concerned. A Dragon that gets too hot and can't cool down is at risk of neurological damage and even death.
Once you have the cool end under control, the cage is "safe" and you can then think about setting the basking spot...
Once you have a nice, stable cool
end (which may take an hour or two to settle down), you can
start to think about creating a basking spot. The stat
controls the total wattage of energy going into the cage;
the basking spot is controlled by the intensity of the light
on the basking spot - think of it in terms of energy per
square inch of basking spot. A lot of energy means a hot
basking spot; a little energy means a cooler one.
Using a narrower beamed light can help - the wattage is the same, but the light is more focussed onto the basking spot, so the intensity is higher. Changing the distance between the light and the basking spot also helps - it increases the intensity of energy hitting the basking spot. Often this will mean suspending the light from the top of the vivarium, or buying a less tall vivarium to being with, to avoid having to build amazingly tall and complex basking spots.
The majority of our vivariums are 18" tall. We have found that in a 4' x 2' vivarium this allows the basking light to be mounted directly onto the top of the cage to give the correct temperature on a 3-6" tall basking rock under the light. Cages less than 15" tall or more than 20" tall may have trouble getting the proper basking temperatures with roof-mounted bulbs.
There are a number of
commonly-encountered problems / faux-pas associated with the
use of stats:
a) They only control the temperature at the probe. A stat can't control the rest of the cage. You have to set the cage up - with the thermostat - under normal operating conditions, then tinker around with the rest of the temperatures.
b) Heat rises. Having a stat placed 18" up the backwall in a cage for a 1" tall baby Dragon doesn't make much sense - the Dragon doesn't care how warm it is 18" above its head; it cares how warm it is on the ground! Although this is a "safe" kind of error, it leads to inefficiency in heating - if the temperature is controlled at 85f 18" up, it may only be 75-80f on the ground. Whilst this is good in that there's a decent cool spot, it will make setting the basking spot harder, and can lead to premature dimming of the bulb on hot days - the ground level where the Dragon is may still only be 75-80f, but the stat will sense 85f, and will turn the basking light (and hence the basking spot) right down. A prolonged period without a basking spot isn't ideal for a Bearded Dragon.
c) A 100W bulb dimmed to 40W is much less bright than a 60W dimmed to 40W. If your bulb is dim all the time, switch down to a lower wattage. You want the basking light to be as bright as possible, whilst keeping the correct temperatures. I use 60W bulbs in my 4' x 2' x 18" vivariums. The number of people using 100W bulbs in tiny cages that give off almost no light is pretty high! Remember that Dragons need bright light to promote normal activity; a cage with a high-power but extremely dimmed bulb may be at the right temperatures, but it is likely to be a lot darker than one that uses a bulb with a more appropriate wattage bulb.
d) Ventilation is needed to allow heat loss. If heat can't escape from the cage, the cool end will get to 85f, the light will dim...and will stay dimmed. The whole cage is now at 85f, and your Dragon has just lost its thermal gradient and basking spot. A couple of 75mm vents in the cool end allow heat to be lost at that end. This makes sure that as heat is transferred from the warm end, it is lost and doesn't just build up in the cool end. Heat loss is vital for keeping a good thermal gradient. If you are having problems with the cage getting to temperature then staying there, add more ventilation to the cool end. More ventilation in the cool end allows a larger thermal gradient, whilst more ventilation in the warm end will give a cooler basking area. This can be useful if your ambient temperatures are perfect but the basking spot is getting too warm and you can't increase the distance between the basking rock and basking light.
Hopefully this has cleared up some misconceptions. My intention with this guide is to improve safety in reptile cages, by greatly reducing the risk of overheating, especially with summer on its way. People who only got into reptiles in the last 18 months may never have experienced a "proper" summer (as the last one scarcely counts in terms of temperatures) with their reptiles, and may not be aware of what an exceptionally hot cage can do to temperatures and gradients.
There are a lot more things that
can be done with thermostats than what is described above.
I'd really recommend that if you've never kept reptiles that
need basking spots / cool ends, and aren't familiar with the
concept of thermostats, you stick to what's described above.
It's simple, it's safe and it's functional.
If you are using large, ventilated cages, you could replace the dimming stat with an on-off, and have it as a true safety feature. Set it to 85f, place it in the cool end as usual, but set up the rest of the cage (ventilation, size of cage etc) so that, even on the warmest day, the cool end remains below 85f. You are likely to need a large cage to do this.
This means that your bulb is now "uncontrolled", with only a safety cut out in place (incase something goes wrong / we get an unexpected heat wave). What this means is that your cage will now track room temperature, and you'll get a bit more temperature variation, as you would in the wild. If you use this in an unregulated / only slightly heated room, the cage temperature will now track even more closely to outside temperature, giving true temperature fluctuations, depending on the weather. For animals that can sense air pressure (and hence weather) changes, such as Bearded Dragons, it may be less confusing to them if they sense that there will be rain, and the cage gets a little colder than usual, than if they sense rain and the cage retains it's 110f basking spot...
Note: the on-off safety cutout described above is the only way to "stat" a Mercury Vapor Bulb (MVB) - they cannot be used with dimming / pulse stats.
If you are using a large cage, how about having 2-3 basking lights, each linked to their own timer with the timers all linked to a single thermostat. Put the probe to create one permanant cool end. Set one timer to come on first thing in the morning. Set the first timer to off at lunchtime, and the second timer to come on. Your basking spot will move, representing the movement of the sun across the sky (in nature, reptiles have to move during the day to track the sun and the best basking spots). If you have a 3rd light, do the same, but with it coming on in the late afternoon. It may be a solution to all of the lazy bearded dragons that are only too happy to sit around by their light and not move for an entire day...
I have used a similar principle when building a Fake Rock Display Cage. The cage has a series of lights which come on in combinations to give a more realistic daily lighting sequence. These photos were all taken whilst the cage was still being built, so apologies for the unfinished look!
For early morning and late evening the cage is given a reddish glow and no real basking spot:
For mid-morning and late afternoon a basking spot is present along with a second, low-energy bulb to provide extra light:
For the midday period, another bulb comes on to add a bit of extra brightness and light to the basking spot. Although the cool end is still cool and somewhat shaded, on the surface right under the basking spot the temperatures can hit 120f, as they would on the hottest Australian days:
By giving the cage a daily temperature and light cycle, it forces the occupant to move around during the day to track their preferred temperature and light range, rather than being able to lazily sit in a single place all day.


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Issues Talk Self-Titled Album, Vans Warped Tour + Influences
Issues are a band you need to keep an eye on for 2014. The group issued their self-titled album earlier this year, featuring the singles 'Stingray Affliction' and 'Never Lose Your Flames.' Loudwire caught up with brothers Ty and Sky Acord, the band's turntablist and bassist, repsectively, as well as guitarist AJ Rebollo ,and got the scoop on their breakout release. The three band members also spoke about the variety of influences that factor into their music and shared their thoughts on playing the Vans Warped Tour this summer. Check out the chat below:
Talk about the song 'Stingray Affliction' and its accompanying video …
Sky Acord: We chose that as our first single because it kind of — looking back, we could have shocked people a little more — but 'Stingray Affliction' kind of eases people into what we're doing with the album. It definitely had all the elements people are familiar with from the EP, but on another level sort of.
As for the video, it was awesome because 'Stingray Affliction,' the hooks and stuff are kind of inspired by 90s R&B to the utmost extent. With the video we tried to do that even more so. So, Tyler has a mark under his left eye for "Left Eye" Lopes and the fact that it switches up in the middle of the video is totally old-school '90s R&B. It's a fun video, fun song. The song definitely means something but it's still more lighthearted than some of the other songs on the album. It's fun to play, people can just chill and do their thing.
What was it like the first time seeing the album as a complete product?
AJ Rebollo:I guess you could say [the EP] 'Black Diamonds' was a major release, but this is really the first major release that we've ever been a part of. I've never, even with any other little band I've been a part of, never had CDs or anything like that. So, just the fact that there's a CD in my hand is incredible. But the fact that it's doing well, I don't know, it did a lot better than we expected. It's a crazy feeling.
Now that you're out there and playing songs live from the disc, what's your favorite song to perform live?
Ty Acord: One of my favorite songs to play live off the new record is 'The Settlement.' It's simply because A) it's heavy and fun. In the very beginning, AJ lets me do this little guitar chug thing and I think it's the most fun part of the whole set. I scratch the rhythm, he plays on the guitar on the record and most of the time, I'm improving. It's one thing I have to nail every night, it's fun for me. I love that song.
AJ Rebollo: How did that start?
Ty Acord: I think I said, "I won't scratch that." You're like, "Do it." I was like, "Wait, maybe I can" and I tried it. Then halfway through the tour I was brave enough to do it live.
AJ Rebollo: One of the first times he did it was our show in Mexico. That was sick. So every since then, I used to do it with him but then when I saw he was nailing it, we had talked about it. We didn't really plan on actually expanding on it. But, when he did it in Mexico with me, it was so tight, i was like I'm gonna let him play that part. You can do it. That song is my favorite song.
Sky Acord: Same with me, 'The Settlement.' It's designed to be intense live. It's really technical so we have to get better at playing it, and playing tight and rocking out at the same time. You can't really jump around and play super technical riffs right off the bat. Also it has a stupid breakdown at the end, which is awesome. Always fun live. I like watching people hurt themselves.
There's a lot of energy with this band, and likewise in the crowd. What's the craziest thing you've seen?
Sky Acord: Every time we play [the festival] South By So What?, something happens. First time we played it, this festival in Dallas. Tyler almost died because he fell off the stage, which is super high festival stage. He fell in between the subwoofers and the stage. He's there one second and gone the next. [laughs]
The second time, the set was fine but then I walked off stage immediately after and puked all over myself. It was awesome. The third time we were just falling all over ourselves because it was super rainy and we were one of the last bands to play that day. We always get good slots on that festival, so some of our biggest crowds we've ever played have been at that festival. So a lot of people have seen us screw up, which is awesome.
Can you talk about the energy when making that connection with the crowd?
Sky Acord: It's super fun especially with — well with barricades it's a little harder because there's more disconnect. But smaller venues where the crowd is right up in your face, it doesn't matter how far back it goes. You feel super connected to every person in the room because everyone is watching you, and you're vibing off of everyone. Sometimes I have conversations with people in the front row, "Hey how ya coin!?," in between songs. It's fun because everyone is there on the same level. We're not rock stars. We're just playing for other fans of music.
You mentioned having conversations with fans in the front row. What's one of your favorite experiences?
Ty Acord: I usually give people water and stuff. I remember yesterday, someone said, "Scout!" I was like, "What's up?" They told me to tell AJ that pulp in orange juice is gross because he tweeted about it one time I guess. I was like, "Oh, OK. Cool." then I went back to playing the set. It was a very important thing to tell me I guess.
You just came from a meet and greet. Talk about how the fans have come to embrace Issues.
AJ Rebollo: It's cool man. The more and more we do the signings, the more we grow as a band. I just love seeing the different types of people, the demographic. I like seeing our demographic expand. It used to be kind of the typical kids you see at shows, middle school and high school girls. They like this type of stuff, which is funny because it's like metal and screaming and stuff. Now it's just different age groups and guys and everything. It becomes more and more diverse as we grow as a band. It's cool to meet everyone that's vibing out with the music.
My favorite thing is people's stories jamming to our music. Someone told me today he's a pizza delivery guy and the only thing that gets him through the day is our full length album. That's sick, I can see him delivering pizza, rocking out to our jams. That's dope.
From the music I'm hearing on this album, it seems you have quite a few influences. Talk a bit about what kind of music each of you grew up on.
Ty Acord: Both my brother and myself love Stevie Wonder. He's probably one of the main influences in both of our lives. And then, I listen to a lot of Fatboy Slim, as far as the electronic side. Then I listen to a lot of Linkin Park, later got into Impending Doom and deathcore bands like that. The three main things that show up in our music are the heavy, the soulful stuff and then the electronic stuff. I guess those are the three main artists I like.
AJ Rebollo: I owe my entire musical career to the Jackson 5, actually. I played trumpet before guitar or drums or anything. J5 was the first group that ever made me want to perform on a stage like we're doing now. That was in 5th grade I think. That's when I was getting into Blink 182, Sum 41, New Found Glory. That's when I got a lot more involved in guitar, then I started evolving into metal. Children of Bodom was one of my favorite bands, Cradle of Filth. It went from there. More of the core stuff, one of the first major core bands I listened to was Parkway Drive.
Favorite Stevie Wonder song?
Sky Acord: That's hard. Maybe 'Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away' because my mom covered it when I was little. I heard it a lot. Maybe 'Overjoyed' and then 'The Secret Life of Plants' is probably my favorite. Best written song.
You've got Warped Tour coming up this summer. What are your memories of going to the festival as a kid?
AJ Rebollo: I remember first time I ever went to Warped Tour, I don't even remember what year it was. All I remember was Coheed [and Cambria] was headlining that night. Me and my brother grew up in Washington so our venue was pretty cool. It was the Gorge Amphitheater, right on a cliff over the water, on the canyon.
I just remember thinking, "What the hell is going on?" There's thousands of kids, everyone is in mosh pits and everyone is dying of heat exhaustion. But everyone is having a good ass time. I just remember seeing all the bands and wondering what it would be like to be on something like that. I ended up going back as I grew up more and more and then one day I was playing it. Mind blowing.
Looking forward to any of that extra curricular stuff?
Sky Acord: Last year we only did ten days of it, then we got on it after a very infamous nu-metal party. I am so incredibly bummed out I missed out on that nu-metal party. So I hope that happens again, I'll paint my face and wear baggy cargo shorts, no shirt, maybe a wife-beater.
If you were to do your own nu-metal era cover…
Sky Acord: I think we're working on one.
AJ Rebollo: I really want to cover Slipknot or Ill Nino.
Let's talk about the other big song from the new album, 'Never Lose Your Flames.'
Ty Acord: It's funny, Tyler [Carter] before Issues had a solo thing going on and he had wrote that song as a solo song. It kind of got buried under emails or whatever, got forgotten about with the creation of Issues. When we were doing the full length I told him it was a great song and we should revive it. He's wasn't sure, so we showed it to Chris our producer and he said we definitely had to do it. So, me and AJ sat down and we just took an a capella of Tyler singing it and just made the music, the riffs from scratch and it came out pretty sick.
It has some pop-punk parts, something we've never really done. It's got a cool little synth solo, it just came out eclectic and fun. One of the lighter songs on the record for sure but I think one of the catchiest.
Anything on the horizon for you guys?
Ty Acord: I'll be coming out with a record and I'm going to be doing a set on Warped Tour. And I just remixed 'Can You Feel My Heart' by Bring Me the Horizon. [Listen here.]
Are you tight with Bring Me the Horizon?
Ty Acord: We just met them on [our recent] tour, but I befriended Jordan [Fish]. He and I became friends off the bat both being keyboard electronic guys in the bands and one day I asked him for the stems, showed him the mix and we're doing an official release. I'm stoked on it.
Our thanks to Issues for the interview. Be sure to pick up their self-titled album at iTunes and Amazon. Catch the band this summer on the Vans Warped Tour at these locations.
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An incredible set of pictures taken during the controversial 1903 British Mission to Tibet has come to light - the first ever photos to come out of the mysterious country.
The rare snaps were taken by an officer during the campaign - the first time the British were given access to the country.
They depict the haunting beauty of the secluded country and brought images of Tibeten landscapes including Mount Everest to the west for the first time.
The 72 stunning pictures show local people, buildings and even a group of nuns gathered to smile for the camera.
The pictures date from the notorious expedition of Edwardian adventurer Francis Younghusband in 1903-04 and gave the western world their first glimpse of life in the hidden kingdom
The photographs were painstakingly pasted into an album and stored carefully, passing down through his family over the years
The Council of four in the Potala palace. The fleeing Dalai Lama left these officials behind to negotiate with the British
Taken by a John Claude White, a political officer and joint leader of the expedition, the snaps passed to a soldier in the campaign,
Lieut. William Pyt Bennett.
The photographs were painstakingly pasted into an album and stored carefully, passing down through his family over the years.
They are now being sold at auction by Bonhams of London and are expected to fetch a whopping 15,000 pounds.
White entered the country as part of the British expedition to Tibet in 1903 and 1904, when British Indian forces sought to prevent Russia gaining influence in the country.
Led by Major Francis Younghusband, around 3,000 troops marched into the country, famously killing around 700 lightly armed Tibetan monks in the village of Guru.
They reach the capital Lhasa in August 1904, when the government signed a treaty effectively turning the country into a British protectorate.
The black and white photos show the mysterious landscape of the country, including Mount Everest, with pictures of Tibetans in traditional dress posing for the camera.
The spectacular Khamba Jung fortress: Younghusband's expedition was spurred by a fear that Russia was extending its power into Tibet
Expeditionary force camped under the Phari Jung fortress. The expedition was a bloody one as Younghusband was forced to fight Tibetan forces
Some even show the expedition itself, with rows of tents on the flat plains, and monks and nuns going about their daily routine.
David Park, director of book, maps and manuscripts at Bonhams, said: 'These are extraordinary photos with a rather fabulous provenance.
'They are the first pictures to come out of Tibet, which was a closed country at the time - in general British people could not go there.
'Indian and Nepalese traders were sometimes allowed in but in general they did not want outside influences or visitors.
'Britain decided they had to force the door open as it were, and launched a lightly armed military expedition.
'They had a military force of about 3,000, with another 7,000 camp followers with camels to carry things.
The end of Empire: Sikh and British soldiers with a Tibetan guide and a Yak train
Head monk of the Tashi Lama with Badulah, a Chinese ambassador (right)
Younghusband in Darjeeling on the eve of the expedition. The Tongsa Penlop, (right) a Bhutanese ambassador taken by the British to explain to the Tibetans that resistance would be futile, and later knighted
'There were military skirmishes but the British kept going until they reached Lhasa and a treaty was signed.
'These photographs were taken by a British political officer, John Claude White. He was not a professional photographer, but he was very good - they are cracking pictures.
'What makes these photographs ever more unusual is their provenance - they belonged to a man who was actually part of the expedition.
'They may have been presented to him or he may have bought them as a souvenir, and they have been in his family ever since.
'They really are extraordinary and they have an estimate of 10,000 to 15,000 pounds.' A selection of photographs taken by John Claude White in Tibet and Lhasa were published by Johnston & Hoffmann in 1906.
The pictures will be sold in Bonhams 'Travel and Exploration, India and Beyond' sale in London on Tuesday, October 5.
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Nice post !
A bit of journalistic or auctioneers hype in it though ! ( probably to increase the auction price )
Many of the pictures in the 1960 published book ' Bayonets to Lhasa' by Peter Fleming are from The John Claude White collection .
Also the "famously killing around 700 lightly armed Tibetan monks in the village of Guru." is a bit of sensationalism as the Tibetians killed were the local conscripted peasant army.
The book has a full description, photograph of the Tibetian General ,aftermath, and a map of the battle plan and action.
Nevertheless I would love to see the complete album !
P.S If you are interested in the campaign, and you would like to borrow the book - PM me - I am just down the road from you Farang.
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Amazing buildings
Wish the chinese would leave tibet alone.
The lad at the front is the only man smiling in the whole series ,and he's got pompous dudes to his left and right .
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Ingenious things - called an 'ekka'
Where there was a stretch of no road or track, they could be dismantled into 'yak- sized ' pieces - carried by the yak over the obstacle- followed by the load - reassembled and off you went again !
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I didn't start to get good results until I started squeezing out as much water as I could - but always upside down. That way the curls don't get flat. First I use my hands. Then I use CLU towels and squeeze until the water doesn't drip from my hair. If it starts to drip a little, I do another squeeze or two with the towels. Then apply a curl enhancer (usually CHSCF) and squeeze it in just like I did with the towels. My hair is still pretty damp at this point, just not dripping, so I think it does distribute well.
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Wives of Widowers
Stepmothering Children Whose Mother Has Died
by Michelle Mares
It can be a very isolating experience being married to a widower and being a stepmother to children whose mother has died.
A hundred years ago, we were a common breed: scores of men were widowed due to the high incidence of maternal deaths during childbirth and pregnancy, and most of these men went on to marry again. Nowadays, the majority of marriages end through divorce rather than death, and those of us who have married widowers young enough to have dependant children, are no longer so commonplace. Like all stepmothers, we encounter a great deal of misunderstanding and false notions about who we are and what we do.
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Parenting can take over your whole life. Your identity can get swallowed up by the role of stepmothering, and you may find yourself trying to get out from under the shadow of the deceased biological mother. You may feel that friends and relatives are monitoring, observing and critiquing your every parental move. Everyone seems to worry endlessly about the children's welfare. But you are the one who's been thrown in the deep end of the stepparenting pool, and can barely keep your nose above water. The extreme pressure can cause nervous breakdowns in the strongest of women!
The most important little creatures at the center of this drama are, of course, the children. Depending on their age and their temperament, they will most likely be very much in need of a mother figure. They may call you "Mom" and depend on you for motherly care and attention. Children should never, however, be forced to call a stepmother "Mom" and should only do so of their own volition.
It is also important for them to feel free to talk about and remember their deceased mother (though it may be difficult to hear about her sometimes). Photo albums, a box of her treasures, and a few framed pictures in their bedrooms should be sufficient to serve this purpose. It is not, however, necessary to have shrines to her memory scattered throughout your home. Respect her memory, but don't become enslaved by it.
Even though a stepmother didn't give birth to her stepchildren, she does have a unique and important position with them. It is an exclusive relationship, which is unlike any other. This is especially true in a situation where the biological mother has died: she is the only mother figure and over time should expect to be granted full parental authority and recognition.
If the children do accept you as a mother figure, you should claim your place as such and be proactive in your family. People may question your motives for taking on such a big emotional load and may be suspicious of your love for the children. "After all," they reason, "you are only there because you fell in love with their father." The truth is that your love for your stepchildren can grow and become a very strong feeling indeed — many stepparents report that it can feel indistinguishable from what biological parents feel for their children.
Essentially, a stepmother of children whose mother has died becomes a full-fledged parent overnight. She often gets immediately saddled with the overwhelming responsibilities of parenthood without automatically being granted the rights and experience that should go along with them. She inherits half-grown children who have been sheltered and overprotected because of the loss of their mother and who have been brought up with values that may differ starkly from her own. She may feel inhibited to express her ideas about parenting, feeling that she hasn't got the "right" to bring these children up.
It is impossible to live this way. Once the decision has been made to marry a widower and create a stepfamily with his children, the stepmother and her husband must both dedicate themselves to becoming a parental unit with equal rights and responsibilities. This can be an unbelievably challenging task!
Discipline is undoubtedly the most problematic issue in any stepfamily. Hours and hours of committed discussion with your partner are necessary to find your way through this intricate and emotionally-loaded problem. Unfortunately, a previously-widowed father will often defend his children's misbehavior at your expense. You will probably have to explain to him repeatedly that you are not harming the children when you point out and enforce consequences for misbehavior. You may become deeply discouraged by the fact that your husband feels the need to defend the children against you. You must persevere and continue communicating about it.
Ultimately, the healthiest approach for the children and for you as a couple is for you and your husband to present a united front: he backs you up, and you back him up in front of the children. You may disagree on how the other is handling things, but bite your tongue until later when you can discuss it behind closed doors. A note of caution: never shake or hit a child. No matter what your personal stance on physical punishment is, your actions may not be easily forgiven by either the children themselves or by friends and family. You might only add fuel to the fire of the "evil stepmother" prejudice.
Another common pitfall in any stepfamily is a division of loyalties. The biological parent has an unquestionable and eternal bond with his children and with the deceased mother, which predates his relationship with the stepmother. There will be many occasions when she will feel like the "new kid on the block." The loneliest and most desperate moments are those when she feels like an outsider in her own home and in the family she has married into.
Friends and family of your husband's may also feel proprietary about him and the children, especially if they were around during the grieving process. They are often blinded by the fact that you were't there "before" and believe you therefore cannot possibly know your stepfamily as well as they do. This is, of course, rubbish, but this misconception can serve to isolate the stepmother at a time when she needs friends and moral support more than she ever has before.
Be very discerning about whom you confide in! Almost no one can fully understand the emotional intricacies of being a stepmother to children whose mother has died. You may receive mainly useless advice, which applies to other stepmothers at best or to other biological parents at worst. You must also be careful not to criticize the children or express your exasperation with them to friends and relatives who don?t know you very well and who are just getting acquainted with you. You will only feed their socially-conditioned negative view of stepmothers.
Be positive about the children, show respect for the dead mother, and save your venting for people who know you well, or for other women in a similar situation. Be aware of all that you are doing, have confidence in your ability to mother your stepchildren, and counter insensitive remarks with facts.
In order to maintain a positive mental attitude, it is very important for a stepmother to create her own niche and unique personal identity. Stepparenting can take over your entire life. Make sure you keep a corner of your life just for you: stay in touch with your friends, do things that do not include your husband and his children, and keep your interests alive.
You must also spend enough time with your husband, alone. He may unconsciously expect you to become like a biological mother overnight and may begin taking your parental contributions for granted. He has to learn that you need romance and intimacy in your relationship and not just parental duties. Your husband should become your best friend and your strongest support. He needs to be like a rock for you, and the both of you need to learn to be on the same side. It takes two fully-involved adults to create a stepfamily!
The same applies to the children. If you are having problems relating to your stepchildren, plan more one-on-one time with each of them. You and the children need time to get to know each other, and you need space to develop your own unique relationship with them. You might be amazed how much fun "Johnny" is when he's not fighting for attention with his sister "Jenny" or with his father.
Creating a stepfamily takes a lot of time, patience and love. Experts say that it can take anywhere from two to five years before it begins to feel like a family. Do not underestimate the enormity of the task you have undertaken. You are becoming a parent. Read books on parenting and on stepmotherhood. Prepare yourself and arm yourself with knowledge. When you feel that you are going insane, be comforted by the fact that it is not you, but rather the fact that you're in a crazy-making situation.
It is an immense task to take on children who are not your own and to parent them in a society that holds such deeply-rooted prejudices about stepmothers. We can change these prejudiced views in our social circles, and we must reach deep down inside ourselves to our reserves of emotional strength, wisdom and maturity to do so. Like any great challenge, step-mothering children whose mother has died can bring out the best and the worst in a woman. Learn from the worst and move forward with your best!
Talk about it at the Members Cafe! Stepmothering Children Whose Mother Has Died
Michelle Mares is a Canadian who has been living in Holland for the past three years. She is a professional pianist and is happily married to a widower with two young children.


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For those who care. Blogs become more and more 'so nineties'... Nevertheless I found it's time for a makeover. Blog 'Clad in Air, Clad in Art', initiated in 2012, now carries a bulk of 320 posts, but I've come to the conclusion that I didn't make a good job of it. My English is often crummy, my reviewing texts don't make the most of the illustrative themes and worse- half of those posts carry pictures with a JPG extension. Quite late in my life I discovered that saving them as PNG files considerably sharpened the illustrations and enriched the colors.
So I started a new blog. Also with the theme Nudity in Art, but this time no diversions like an Art in Glass series, no more attempts at Peotry. (Unless there are poems that I think are really worth revamping. Even if there is no one to judge.)
The new blog I named 'SKYCLAD, a coffee table book'. Such literary twang! But for any other subject - if I have time for it, and for the beauty of glass I certainly will - blog Clad in Art will remain active.
~~~~clad in air, clad in art
~ pizza!
shortshorts top his blond furred legs
soccer calves, muscle bulges
in his T-shirt, adult-young,
young adult, hopes his pals
Glass, just that - 5
This will be my
I show mainly modern glass art, but this one is incredibly timeless. It's a Roman goblet from around the 4th century. My goodness, it had seventeen turbulent centuries to break...
Glass, just that - 4
When I was a house painter I saw this table in the house of a young well-to-do couple. No kids yet. Which meant Shoes Off and Do Not Eat Your Lunch At The table.
On the tabel. We house painters got it.
On the tabel. We house painters got it.
Some more concrete-glass combi's:
Glass, just that - 3
Door knobs. Best known are the faceted ones in the crammed house of Aunt Jemima or the trailer of the Rabble family. They're usually of perspex. The specimen here is simple, massive and of green glass. This is what I would chose for my house. If I had doors that need to be knobby.
Glass, just that - 2
If someone said to me "Glass? Not interesting. It's just that. And it's rubbish. Plastic is much more durable", I don't know what I'd do. Faint, puke on him or her, or stone that person with this:
Why does gay art always have to be so gay? - 10
The title and the category 'gaysex' are misnomers. In these series I, pizza dell'arte delivery boy, post not only gay/homosexual/ gender-equal illustrations. Some of the figures are not even 'clad in air'.
But for the pick 'n mix art series I decided to maintain the title, I always wanted to use it.
~ traumammy
Mam are you listening
the house is big and light and warm there is
a park and Mam I know now what the world
is but I still don't know why was it
The Alpha male in art - the penile psychose 2
What the male probably fears most is losing his male pride.
What man pride?
His joystick, his snookerballs.
The Alpha man in art - the penile psychose 1
Women suffer from penis envy, men from vagina dentata and penile xenophobia. In the beginning there was God who said: 'Adam, your penis is strictly for urinating. For your, um, versatile creativity I will burden the hell out of you.'
But Adam didn't listen, so some time later the Lord added handpalm rope burning and venereal diseases in a variety of colors and smells.
Will we ever live to see Superman as an adult?
Nudity and Sex in a comic! Joseph McCarthy and Fredric Wertham and forever financee Lois Lane turn in their graves!
Till this day, the worlds of Marvel and DC try to cope with the graphic facts of life. They are still more at ease with graphic violence...
There is a male subject that has little to do with Alpha Machismo. I think. It is in all regards difficult to categorize. I saw it only once, in a comic book. A real one. So I prefer to call it a graphic novel.
It appeared in the historical series The Seven Lives of the Sparrow Hawk, a theme around a masked man who fights against the injustice of serfdom and poverty, and the era is the 17th century France during the reign of Henry IV.
Till this day, the worlds of Marvel and DC try to cope with the graphic facts of life. They are still more at ease with graphic violence...
There is a male subject that has little to do with Alpha Machismo. I think. It is in all regards difficult to categorize. I saw it only once, in a comic book. A real one. So I prefer to call it a graphic novel.
It appeared in the historical series The Seven Lives of the Sparrow Hawk, a theme around a masked man who fights against the injustice of serfdom and poverty, and the era is the 17th century France during the reign of Henry IV.
Posted by Vestiphobic Label (category) art in Comix, art with testosteron
Poetry? Peotry!
~ cold spaghetti
seven hot women
seven hot cowboys
seven erect rifles
one ennio morricone theme
one fuckin' noisy showdown
no ennio morricone theme
seven cooling rifles
seven cold cowboys
seven hot widows
The Alpha man in art - the naked crazies
This is a difficult one. A few odds and ends, actually. One can wonder if cannibalism is a product of testosteron and machismo. And is it erotic? A variety in crazy serial killers seem to think so. Since the entertainment boom in zombies, cannibalism has become hot.
The Alpha man in art - the naked wars 3
Orlando, Charlemagne's most famous paladin from Legends of Charlemagne, has been tempted to forget his duty to protect the emperor through his love for the pagan princess Angelica.
At the beginning of The Song of Roland (a poem) Angelica escapes from the castle of the Bavarian Duke Namo, and Roland aka Orlando sets off in pursuit. The two meet with various adventures until Angelica saves a wounded Saracen knight, Medoro, falls in love, and elopes with him to Cathay.
When Orlando learns the truth, he rampages in total despair through Europe and Africa, destroying everything in his path.
The Alpha man in art - the naked wars 2
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain is unmistakably associated with machismo and war. Artist David Cerny used him for a political version of Damien Hirsch's famous formaldehyde pickled shark...
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ANTANANARIVO – President Andry Rajoelina shocked Madagascar by registering as a candidate for upcoming elections, documents revealed, despite an earlier vow to step aside in a bid to end the island's political crisis.
A list of presidential candidates published by the Special Electorial Court showed the interim leader, who came to power in a 2009 coup, among the 41 approved candidates for the July 24 vote.
In January, the 38-year-old former disc jockey said he would step back from the race, as a way of breaking Madagascar's crippling political deadlock.
He said on Friday that his decision was prompted by rivals throwing their hat into the ring. "To my great surprise I saw the former president (Marc Ravalomanana) was running for the presidential elections through his spouse," he told Radio France Internationale. "Former President Didier Ratsiraka is also running, so I said to myself: 'It's a free election and should be transparent. Why would I not run?' "
Rajoelina deposed Ravalomanana, his archrival and predecessor, in a military-backed coup. That resulted in international isolation and tense power politics.
Ravalomanana had made a similar vow not to run, although his wife, Lalao, was listed among the 41 approved candidates.
Also on the list was former President Ratsiraka, who like Lalao Ravalomanana recently came back from exile. He fled to France following a postelection dispute that sparked violence and chaos when he refused to concede defeat to Marc Ravalomanana.


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The ship is well - insulated and suitable as a charter vessel , stay boat , office facility , company boat and much more.
Ann -Mari redesigned by the original owner ( first owner ) for company tours for the company but was also used as Nave of the Pentecostal Mission of shipowner himself and sailed for many years on the coast of Sweden with young people. The very large saloon was well suited for singing and music.
Ann-Mari of Svendborg is build 1964 in shipyard "Trellevarvet", Kallandsø Sweden. Building no. 11. Completely rebuild in Strandby Shipyard 1991. Original build as bunker boat, now being converted into a sailing yacht!
Build in steel, 25,40 mtr x 5,07 mtr x 2,20 mtr + bowsprit. Length in water 21.90 mtr. Brt; 76 Net; 23 , Weight app. 118 tons. Engine's: Volvo TMD 120A (1975-76) 268 HK, 4000 hours after major overhaul (1991). Aux Mach. Isuzu JA3Kri GA-03; 12 kVA , Northern Light Luger M753G; 5 kVA. 60 HK hydraulic bow propeller.
Hydraulic fire pump. Inergen fire protection in Engine room. Fire detectors in all rooms. Central heating (oil) , inverter and charger for batteries. Consumption including 1 genny app. 20 ltr pro hour with speed 7,0-7,5 knots . Top speed 8,3 knot for engine. 380V shoreconnection. Bunker: 4000 ltr in 2 tanks Freshwater : 4000 ltr in 1 tank Septic: app. 1500 ltr in 3 tanks ( 2 x 150 fwd + 1 x 1200 aft) All grey and black water are collected and can be discharged via pump or shore connection.
Rig; Total 160 square mtr sails (4 pcs) in acceptable condition. Stainless steel wire rig. Both mast's in wood (mainmast new 2008) height o/w 21 mtr. 3 pcs electrical winches. Navigation equipment: I.C Weilbach magnetic compass, Silva fluxgate compass, Raytheon R40X daylight radar, Furuno DSC VHF, handheld VHF (5 W) Robertson AP45 autopilot, Furuno FCV581 eccosounder, Furuno GPS receiver, Furuno Navtex receiver, EPIRP, SART, Dataline eccosounder/logg/temp. C-map chart system on PC w/19" screen. 25 person liferaft , 25 lifevest (16 mermaid, 9 diff brands). One 3,6 mtr hardbottom dinghy (Selva) with steering position and 35 HK (Selva) engine.(2005). Accommodation: Under the poopdeck is the owners department with big saloon, one two bed cabin and toilet/bath.
In the earlier cargoroom the fully equipped galley are placed most aft. The exclusive saloon are divided into two departments, one for 18 people eating and the other for 18 people in two sofa groups. In the front we have 2 cabins with each 2 beds and 2 toilets (electric macerator) one each with washing machine and dryer, and one 4 bed cabin (crew).
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Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as)
An in-depth explanation of Quranic verses 78-116 of Surah Taa Haa by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih IV (ra) in Urdu and Arabic. Class no. 164, recorded on November 26, 1996.
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Meatball (envelope filter)
Pedal description (by Lovetone)
The MEATBALL™ is an amazing envelope follower/triggered filter - the funky blue alternative to a high fibre diet that has put a smile on (or at least taken the frown off) a lot of faces! Because of the large number of controls, and because changing the position of any one affects the way in which the others will interact, this offers a truly vast array of sound possibilities (from the sublest effects to frightening untamed excesses!) and means that the Meatball™ can be "tuned in" to dance the most intimate tango without treading on your toes or just wave its arms in the air and let it all hang out. (The filter frequencies can also be tuned precisely to allow laser guided goosing of high gain distortion). While the Meatball™ is capable of the most gratuitous "auto-wah" funk abuse and visits the promised land of Bootsy "You won't need any spaghetti with this Meatball it's real phat" for fun, this represents but a mere fraction of its potential which includes totally unique new sounds. The large frequency and dynamic range makes it equally suitable for bass, guitar, keyboards/synths, samplers and general studio use - in fact any audio signal whether a single sound source or programme material.
By treating simple waveforms it can become an analogue synth in its own right, or it can be used as an aural exciter to add sparkle and depth particularly to lifeless samples. The external trigger facility enables the filter to be triggered by a completely separate audio source which can be another instrument, pulse or click or even touching a lead connected to the input! A great way to exploit this is to use one aux send on your mixer for the sound source and another one for the trigger so you can literally trigger anything with anything which as you can imagine can give rise to some pretty freaky effects.
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Technical info (by Lovetone)
- Sensitivity control
- Attack and Decay controls
- Range control (can be used to fine-tune the frequency response and create subtle effects)
- Resonance control
- Blend which mixes straight signal with effect creating a whole new palette of sounds.
- Pedal facility (allows the use of a standard passive volume pedal to create wah-type effects)
- FX loop - insert octaves and distortion for some real 70's cheese, or use for external trigger facility
- Up and Down response curves
- High, Low, and Band-pass filter modes
- Four selectable filter frequency ranges
- Triggering off full or half bandwidth and trigger off (useful for instance as a static tone control or for adding or scooping tone with blend)
- LED showing filter response
- LED showing effect on/off
blend loop etc end
Check the project's files.
- Layout 01 by Tom H. - No external wiring required, layout 1 of 2.
- Layout 02 by Tom H. - No external wiring required, layout 2 of 2.
A few words from Tom H. aboyut this layout: I have built my Meatball on a different layout to this which resulted in all of the controls being in the opposite place! (The completed thing is on the Pictures thread). This layout should be the correct way round and has simply used the Pisotones layout with on board jumpers or traces. Another forumite "Mamora" contacted me about the final layout earlier in the week. I sent him these layouts I have asked him to check it against Pisotone's as it is not confirmed and may well be mistakes. All of the work was done in Paint! But it worked quite well so can probably be modified/corrected easily using that!
- Check the project's files for a different layout.
Project Files
- Project file - Includes the schematic and layout.
Sound samples (by Lovetone)
- Voltage control: the Meatball will run with anything between 9V-12V DC. A simple mod is adding a control to the pedal to be able to select any voltage within that range (instead of having to chose between the two in your charger). You can even add a panel volt meter to display the exact voltage.
Building info
- Page of the project's creator
- Spanish-speaking build site - Don't trust wirings, there may be some bugs!
- Building thread in a Spanish-speaking forum
Latest news
- Layouts with onboard switches - Seems they're in the beat-stage, though.
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LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Second seed Victoria Azarenka called on Wimbledon organisers to examine the state of the courts after joining a growing list of players to withdraw from the grasscourt grand slam because of injury on Wednesday.
The Belarussian took a bad fall in her first-round match on Monday on what she called a slippery Court One and her knee failed to recover in time for Wednesday's match against Flavia Pennetta as she became one of eight players to pull out so far.
"I don't know if it's the court or the weather I can't figure it out it," Azarenka, who joined John Isner, Marin Cilic, Radek Stepanek, Steve Darcis, Guido Pella, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Romina Oprandi in cutting short the Wimbledon campaign.
"It would be great if the (All England) club or somebody who takes care of the court just would examine or try to find an issue so that wouldn't happen."
It is the first edition of the tournament since the retirement of long-time head groundsman Eddie Seaward but a Wimbledon spokesman said there was nothing different about the courts this year.
"The surfaces at the start (of the tournament) are always lusher than at the end," he said. "We have not changed the way the courts have been prepared or watered."
German Boris Becker, whose athletic dives across the Wimbledon turf helped him win three titles, jumped to the defence of the courts.
"The grass is always going to be slippery in the first couple of matches, that has been the case for the past 100 plus years," he told the BBC.
American Isner and Croat Cilic pulled out with knee injuries on Wednesday, while Belgium's Darcis, who stunned Rafa Nadal in the first round, withdrew with a shoulder problem and Czech Stepanek had trouble with his left hamstring.
On Tuesday, Argentine Pella was carried off court on a stretcher after a nasty fall and Switzerland's Oprandi was also injured, while German Kohlschreiber put his retirement in the fifth set of his first-round match down to flu.
"(It's a) very black day ... it's difficult to say what the explanation is," 10th seed Cilic, who said he had been feeling some pain in his knees for much of the short grasscourt season, told a news conference on Wednesay.
While Darcis sustained his shoulder injury after falling in the first set of his match against Nadal on Monday, Cilic did not actually take a tumble.
"It's more because of obviously much lower bounces, putting more pressure on my body and my knees, as I'm pretty tall," the Croatian said.
"It also has a difficulty on movement. It's a bit tougher to move on grass than other surfaces."
Azarenka, who lay on the ground screaming in agony on Monday after almost doing the splits behind the baseline, played for most of the second set of her first match in obvious pain and with her knee heavily strapped.
Asked if she thought the courts were different to past years, the Belarussian replied: "I'm wondering the same question because the court was not in a very good condition that day (Monday).
"I mean, my opponent fell twice; I fell badly; there were some other people who fell after." (Reporting by Sonia Oxley; Editing by Ken Ferris)