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the flag of a Florida regiment, and advanced, the brigade following him into a cedar thicket, where the enemy had been strongly posted, and from which position he had done us such serious damage; but when we reached there he had ingloriously fled, and we remained masters of the field. Night put a stop to further operations, and we slept that night on our arms.
I desire to make special mention of Captains Ray, Huff, and West; Lieutenant Weaver, commanding Company A, and Lieutenant Wright, commanding Company E, for their brave and gallant conduct, and likewise the cool and deliberate courage exhibited by W. T. White, a private in Company K; H. C. Fagg, Company B; little John [A.] Freshour, Company B, and the color-bearer, Francis [M.] Bailey, Company E, and Corpl. T. J. Garrison and Private H. N. Bridges, of Company A, both of whom were seriously wounded. This being the first engagement the Sixtieth North Carolina has been in, I am gratified to say that with but few exceptions they acquitted themselves in a highly commendable manner.
On Thursday, the 1st, we remained inactive, occupying the ground gained on Wednesday.
On Friday, in the afternoon, we reoccupied Stone's River, and formed line of battle in the rear of Hanson's and Pillow's brigades, to support them in their attack on the enemy. About 4 o'clock we were ordered to advance, which we did in good order; engaged the enemy and kept driving him before us until about sunset, when, it becoming apparent that he was strongly re-enforced and flanking us, we were ordered to fall back. We retire in perfect order about 300 yards, in advance, however, of our original line of battle, and there reformed our line. At this juncture the general commanding came up and ordered us back to our original position.
I regret to announce the death of Acting Adjt. Stanhope S. Erwin, who fell, pierced through the head by a minie ball, while faithfully and gallantly discharging his duties.
J. A. McDOWELL,
Colonel, Commanding Sixtieth North Carolina Volunteers.
Brigadier-General [W.] PRESTON,
Commanding Brigade.
No. 239. Report of Col. T. B. Smith, Twentieth Tennessee Infantry,
TULLAHOMA, TENN., January 22, 1863.
SIR: In obedience to orders received from brigade headquarters, I hereby submit the following report of the part the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment took in the late action near Murfreesborough:
Early Sunday morning, December 28, [1862,] the regiment was formed, the men being fully equipped, their cartridge-boxes filled with ammunition, and two days' rations in haversacks. The brigade being formed, we were marched through Murfreesborough and out upon the Lebanon road about 1 1/2 miles, where we formed line of battle, our right resting on the road, our left extending westward. In this position we remained until near night, when I received orders from General Preston to move my regiment to a skirt of woods still farther west, where we bivouacked for the night.


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How To Get Rid Of Frequent Urination?
Frequent urination affects many people around the world. The problem can be very embarrassing and affect many aspects of a person's life.
Instead of suffering in silence and avoiding situations where you may not be able to get to the bathroom in time; let's come up with a solution that works for you so you can move on with your life.
What Causes Frequent Urination
Before we can get into the solutions for how to get rid of frequent urination, let's discuss exactly what it is and what some of the most common causes are.
Going to the bathroom anywhere from a few times up to 8 times a day is normal, but when you are going much more than this and waking up during the night to go, this is a problem. Not only does it limit what you can do but it also affects your rest.
If you are experiencing fever and discomfort in your abdomen, you may have a urinary tract infection. The early stages of Diabetes are typically accompanied by frequent urination as your body is trying to get rid of the excess glucose.
Pregnancy is also another reason for frequent urination as the uterus begins growing in size and pressing on the bladder; causing you to have to use the restroom more often. (The same goes for a male with prostate problems; an enlarged prostate can begin pressing on the urethra, causing the frequent need to go)
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If you do not know the reason for your frequent urination already, it may be time to talk with your doctor. They are going to give you a physical exam and look at all your medical history (probably asking about your family members as well) to better determine what is going on.
Be sure to pay close attention to any discomfort you are feeling and any other symptoms that may be associated. Even if you think something isn't worth mentioning, it may just be that extra bit of information your doctor needs in order to help alleviate the problem.
How to get rid of frequent urination depends on what is causing the problem in the first place. If you have diabetes for example, your doctor is going to take steps to keep your blood sugar levels at a more normal level.
If you are overweight and this extra pressure is causing you to have leaking; then you will need to work on exercising more and eating a more balanced diet. Things like avoiding drinking before you go to bed are great ways to not have your sleep interrupted anymore.
Your doctor may want you to do Kegel exercises in order to strengthen your bladder's ability to hold urine for longer amounts of time. If OK'd by your doctor, you may want to also strengthen what your bladder can hold by not using the bathroom for a certain amount of time. Over a few weeks, you should be able to increase the amount of time between bathroom breaks.

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Active members of the military and those who've left the service who receive care through Veteran Health Administration hospitals will be able to view all their personal medical data through the Health Records feature on their iPhones. Apple and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs made the announcement on Monday.
Starting this summer, vets will be able to view an integrated snapshot of records from such providers pertaining to allergies, immunizations, vitals, test results, medications, procedures, conditions, and so on. The data is encrypted.
Following a visit to a VA health care facility, the participating vet's Apple device will automatically receive updated health record information within 24 hours.
The Health app on the iPhone isn't new, nor is the Health Records feature within the app where the data will be stored. It was updated last year to make it simpler for patients to chase down records from disparate medical providers, and keep them in one convenient repository. The feature is still technically in beta.
Among the growing list of more than 200 providers in the program are institutions such as Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, Calif., NYU Langone Health in New York, and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp are also participants.
The latest announcement brings the VA hospitals into the fold.
To add health data from the VA, vets will sign in with their military credentials inside the Health app, just as people seeking records from other medical providers sign in with the credentials used to access the various institution's respective patient portals. An Apple ID is never used. For the image, go to https://i.prcdn.co/img?regionguid=5e92ba8e-6292-490f-95a4-7218770b28dc&scale=400&file=11522019021200000000001001®ionKey=SgY9Vfk4bb29YqnbaYNK5Q%3d%3d
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A lot has been said about the Raees-Kaabil clash. Accusations have been hurled, producers have tried to talk it out, alternate dates were apparently looked for but all to no avail. While Hrithik Roshan recently spoke about the clash and said it will affect the box office business for both films, Shah Rukh Khan, who was previously mum on the topic, has finally come out in the open to talk about it.
In an interview with DNA, here's what he said about the business being affected.
For individual films yes! But as far as the business of that period is concerned, it will be the same business, I heard someone discussing that. For example, if the business was going to be 300 crores or 200 crores for both the films, assuming that both the films are very good, that same money will come to the industry from both the films. It will be shared differently by the two film producers who are coming together now. Had it come out individually, one would have taken the entire 200 crores. Now, depending on how the business goes it will differ. But the total cumulative will be the same. I don't think it's bad for the industry at all. It's rather nice for the viewers, they have choices.
He also said he really tried to change the date.
There's no other date, yaar! I have tried my best to shift it around. We were initially supposed to come on Eid in June, then I tried to get it in September-October but Ae Dil and Shivaay were coming. Then I tried to come on December 9, but Befikre was coming. In between, I had Dear Zindagi too. So unfortunately because of the delay and my injury, it is what it is now. Otherwise, even if we had come on Eid, it would have still clashed with Sultan. There were 200 films and just 52 weeks, so then some will have to come together.
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NEW shows that have an emphasis on story telling and are dedicated to children are being championed by the Shelley Theatre in Boscombe this season.
Highlights include The Bird Show this Saturday, November 2 and Santa's Christmas Countdown which comes to town on Sunday, December 15.
Martin Parsons writer and director from Honalee Media (Santa's Christmas Countdown) said: "Live theatre is about telling stories and make-believe. It builds on worlds children are used to and is an introduction to theatre that can stay with them their entire lives.
"It is centred around making them the most important people in the theatre. With a festive performance, you know it's going to be at a special time of year. Their participation and singing makes it such a special occasion. Plus every child gets a present."
Sidney Robb co-founder of The Last Baguette Theatre Company (The Bird Show) added: "Coming to live theatre is all about interacting and participating. It becomes such an enriching experience and to many, something they have never been a part of before.
"Live performance can be relevant to what is happening in the world today and explain to children in a way that has meaning to them.
"The Bird Show is about the environmental challenges that birds (and the rest of us) are facing, but in a fun way, through comedy, music and dance.
"I think that theatre and live performance will thrive as long as it stays relevant and talks about things that are important to people – as well as being fun, engaging, and an exciting collective experience."
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(For several decades I have led and pondered Christian worship. My observation is that leaders must make a serious effort to understand the practice in some depth or they will tend to lead only in accordance with their own tastes. These tastes might have been shaped by childhood church experiences, or mere personal inclinations, or even by practices gathered from the entertainment world. What follows in four parts is not offered as a final or comprehensive word on this critical subject. But it may be used to prompt worship leaders to seek deeper understanding and balance for the serious task of leading God's people in worship)
During a brief stay in the Midwest my host took me to a Sunday morning service in a large, conservative, evangelical church where worship is conducted in traditional ways. I knew that this church has grown remarkably in the past decade through a variety of creative ministries and now exceeds 2000 in attendance. But, as we were leaving the service, my host confided, "There are many refugees in this church." Later, he explained that some "refugees" were there because they had fled churches where bitter debates over musical tastes had divided a congregation; some were from churches where a leader had imposed new styles of worship without consulting or seeking support from the members; and some had come from bodies where worship styles seemed to have been taken over by the entertainment world.
Were these flights merely the results of the rigidities and anxieties of an aging generation? Or were they concerns that should be given greater attention?
I have visited many evangelical churches in recent years and my observation is that some are handling the revolutionary worship impulses so as to keep a congregation moving forward together — though with some strain. But in others it appears that the robust and sustaining Christian faith has been watered down to something like a folk religion where the major objective seems to be to make everyone feel "comfortable." Certainly, worship practices will vary from place to place. One generation will never duplicate in every respect the worship practices of another, but if God does not change and human nature remains constant then there must be some fundamental ways in which the worship of God does not change from age to age.
So, where can we turn for a broader perspective on what's going on? I propose that historically, Christian worship has tended to fall into one or more of three categories: word-centered, liturgical, or charismatic. Each type has its place and its perils. Blended appropriately, each deserves respect.


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Book Review: The Shadow of the Sun
The Shadow of the Sun
By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Africa - mysterious, exotic, unique - so far, an unrealized travel dream of mine. Friends who have been there rave mostly about the extraordinary experience of seeing animals, up close, in the wild, where they live. After reading "The Shadow of the Sun," I see another Africa: the continent - its history and its struggles, and the people who have endured its heat, famine, disease, persecution and disfunction. Ryszard Kapuscinski was a journalist on assignment for Poland's state newspaper when he began his African travels in 1957. He lived there for several years and returned frequently over the next 40. During that time, he witnessed the beginning of the end of colonial rule and its aftermath. In his words, "I traveled extensively, avoiding official routes, palaces, important personages, and high-level politics. Instead, I opted to hitch rides on passing trucks, wander with nomads through the desert, be the guest of peasants of the tropical savannah. Their life is endless toil, a torment they endure with astonishing patience and good humor. This is not a book about Africa, but rather about some people from there – about encounters with them and time spent together."
But I think Kapuscinski understates what we readers are treated to in this remarkable book. With each place he visits, each person he meets and spends time with, history comes to life. We learn about Ghana, Rwanda, Sudan, Zanzibar, Nigeria, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Senegal, Liberia and more. We learn about the various tribes and clans and the effect of slavery on the way people think. We also learn how African culture and customs around hunger, thirst, time and thievery are dictated by its climate, geography, past and present. In one example related to time, Kapuscinski describes getting on a bus in Acra and the revelation that Africans and Europeans have an entirely different perception of time. He explains that for Europeans, "time exists outside man, exists objectively, and has measurable and linear characteristics. The European feels himself to be time's slave, dependent on it, subject to it. To exist and function, he must observe its ironclad, inviolate laws, its inflexible principles and rules. He must heed deadlines, days, and hours." For Africans, writes Kapuscinski, time "is a much looser concept, more open, elastic, subjective. It is man who influences time, its shape, course, and rhythm (man acting, of course, with the consent of gods and ancestors). Time is even something that man can create outright, for time is made manifest through events, and whether an event takes place or not depends, after all, on man alone." Therefore, asking what time the bus will leave makes no sense to the African. The bus will leave when it is full; the meeting will begin when enough people show up; and the battle will begin when two armies start fighting.
The book is filled with insights like this. It is a treasure to share and one that can live on your bookshelf to read and reread. JB
Book Review: Asymmetry: A Novel
Asymmetry. A novel
Author: Lisa Halliday
Simon and Schuster, 2018
Asymmetry has been on several lists of Best Book in 2018. The most striking thing about the novel is the structure. Initially it appears to be three disconnected stories, each dealing with asymmetrical power structures, but somehow I felt that explanation was not enough. The first is the story of an affair between a very old famous writer (rumored to be modeled on Phillip Roth), and a young woman who wants to be a writer (something like the author). Throughout this story there are well-concealed clues as to the connection with the second story. Islamophobia is central to the second story of an Iraqi man dealing with the bureaucracy at Heathrow as he tries to pass through that airport on his way Istanbul. The final section again gives us clues as to how the three stories fit together to form a novel.
The Alice in Wonderland motif that opens the novel and carries it along is part of an attention to the relationship between texts. Where the original Alice saw no point in books without pictures, this Alice sees no point in books without quotation marks. It isn't entirely clear to me on two readings what each of the sections taken from other books/novels tells us about this one, but that would be a fun project to work out.
And of course it is fun to solve the puzzle, and the writing carried me along pretty well. There are some wonderful images, as in the one where a train track ends suddenly, because it really isn't going anywhere. That stands for the relationship between the young woman and the famous old writer.
From here, you could see all the way across the water to the North Fork, where the train from the city came to its slow, inexorable halt—its tracks ending abruptly, surrounded on three sides by grass, as though the men whose job it was to lay them down a century and a half earlier had looked up one day and saw they could go no farther…
At least one critic condemned the book for being overly concerned with form, as, he said, so many books of the twenty-first century appear to be. I agree that it is nice to read novels like Salvage the Bones, (Jesmyn Ward) where the form is not out in front of the story, though the language is gorgeous. Still, there is great pleasure in solving the mysteries in novels like this one and NW, Zadie Smith's enjoyable/challenging novel. I'll take some of each. - SQ
Book Review - Educated: A Memoir
Author: Tara Westover
Review by: Judy Bobrow
Every once in a while, a true story surfaces about how someone overcomes the desperate obstacles brought about by child abuse and neglect to become a person of integrity and substance. The evidence of their survival flies in the face of everything we know about the impact of early life experience on who we become. One question is, "what is it that allows a person to rise above a terrible childhood? Is it something innate – some chemistry – like cream rising to the top? The second question is, "how do they do it?" In Tara Westover's "Educated," the "what is it?" remains a mystery. But the "how do they do it?" is laid out step-by-step through 323 pages of a gripping, often disturbing memoir.
Westover is one of seven children growing up in the mountains of Idaho. Her parents are survivalist who believe that the medical and educational establishments are not to be trusted. Only three of her siblings have birth certificates. Accidents and illnesses are treated at home by Westover's mother, who is a midwife and herbalist. She also is responsible for the children's formal education, which includes only rudimentary reading, writing and arithmetic. Historical events are never addressed so do not exist in the lives of the children.
"I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountains," says Westover in the prologue to her book, "rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Our lives were a cycle - the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons - circles of perpetual change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all. I believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were in some sense, eternal. But eternity belonged only to the mountain."
In equally beautiful prose, Westover takes us through her childhood: her desperate struggle to survive, to learn about the world outside of the mountain, to think for herself, and ultimately to balance love of family and comfort in the life she creates for herself. Sometimes painfully and sometimes exhilarating, Westover shows us how it is possible to become "Educated" despite all odds. JB
These three novellas explore the legacy, or residue, of British colonialism in India. In the first novella," The Museum of Final Journeys," a junior functionary takes on the role of the departed English Foreign Service, takes on the attributes of the oppressor without questioning that role. His father has been a civil servant, rising through the ranks to a position of prestige, and he aspires to rise through the ranks as his father did. An ancient family servant to a once great and wealthy Indian prince convinces the functionary to visit the abandoned, decaying mansion. He walks through room after room of long decayed art treasures, collected by the son of the once owners of the property, and then finally is taken to see an elephant on the verge of starvation. The old servant asks him to save the elephant, but he concludes that he cannot do anything to help the elephant, and gets on with his life. Like his father, he rises to position and relative wealth, but he is troubled by recurring dreams about the elephant. He never allows himself to know that the continuing colonial power of which he is a part is starving the elephant, which is to say, not only India, but his Indian self. The dreams are eruptions of his repressed Indian self.
Other critics have said that windows open briefly, but Desai's characters fail to seize the day. I think Desai is after more than that. This is a critique of colonialism, but what makes her writing so effective is that she is able to locate such a huge historical and political moment within a quite simple story of a man denying what he sees.
The second story, "Translator Translated," takes up the problem of writing the colonized experience in the language of the colonizer. The point of view character, Prema, an English teacher, whose life is less than meaningful, begins to find meaning as a translator of short stories she has grown up with and loved, written in an indigenous language, and apparently quite familiar to all the people who speak that language. Her translation is a success and she is happy for the first time in her life. The author proves to be a recluse who doesn't really want to make much time for her, does not connect with Prema's fantasy of a warm friendship between writer and translator, where they might even become almost coequal in the production. She prevails upon the author to write a novel. But when she gets the novel she is disappointed. She finds none of the vividness and charm of the short stories. As a teacher of Jane Austin and George Elliot, Prema knows what a novel should be. So she revises as she translates, to bring the novel up to her standards. The novel is less than successful, but worse, a relative of the author comes to claim that it is badly translated, and at a reading, a voice in the crowd scolds Prema for translating the story into the language of the colonizer. The author chooses not to continue writing—she is busy developing schools in the poor districts from which her short stories were drawn. And Prema is forced back into the dreary life she had hoped to escape—riding the coattails of Austin and Eliot.
Desai is here writing in English, writing a novella –not a novel but close enough—about why Indians shouldn't write novels in English. In Desai's biography there is no clear indication that she ever spoke a truly remote, indigenous language, but she did speak several of the more common languages: Urdu, etc. I don't quite see Desai herself as betraying her native language. She grew up speaking German, but I do notice that the story is told primarily in the third person past tense, except for two sections in first person, one past tense and one present tense. This breaks the traditional form of novels, at least, of the novels that Prema spends her life teaching—the nineteenth century British novel. Given the machinations of today's young novel writers the challenge is hardly breathtaking, but it calls attention to the act of writing about the life of the colonized in a form that belongs to the colonizer. Desai tries to escape the novel. As does Prema, in her dismal life.
The story tells us the indigenous author could not write a novel. The stories she had to tell didn't survive the passage into novels. They were pretty close to the anecdotes we tell each other every day about our lives, written in the language that community would tell its stories in. The indigenous author is not dependent on literature for a life: she is engaged in the process of living, of helping other people. But Prema is left, living an empty life on the margins of eighteenth and nineteenth century English novels.
The last story is less elegantly efficient than the first two, less elegantly shaped. In "The Artist of Disappearance," an upper caste Indian couple in love with the values of the British, spend their lives aping the ways of the rulers. They travel in Europe, socialize with British neighbors. They have adopted an Indian son in whose welfare they are not at all interested. The boy barely survives, and that only with the help of the servants. He relates to things in nature, not to people. The parent's social life is interrupted by a racist incident, when an English man beats up the husband for dancing with his wife. The boy is sent away to school, where he is miserable. Eventually he goes home to share his life with blind old woman supposed to be his tutor, his parents having departed somewhere for good. Somehow the old woman sets the house on fire and it burns up completely except for one room that still has walls and a roof, though black and smoked. A villager brings food and a cot for the now grown man, who seems to spend his life sitting on what is left of the veranda. And so he hardly survives as far as anyone knows. But he has a secret project: he finds a pool hidden in the jungle and turns it into a work of art. He drags trees and stones and arranges them all to make a beautiful space.
The western world shows up, in the form of documentary film makers from Delhi who wish to film the destruction of the jungle. A fine irony. They are not especially lucky in finding what they came for. Much is made in the story of film crews coming to film the beautiful scenery in this area. At one point, one of them discovers the artist's pond. They succeed in filming the pond, but the villagers hide the artist, so they are never able to connect with him. Looking at the film, they find that the footage seems flat and boring. One says that they needed the artist for this to come alive. They pack up their cameras and leave, but the artist never goes back to his pond.
That is, the western world comes to see the scenery, not the people. They almost figure out that they are missing the soul of the people, that there is a soul immanent in the art of the pond, but, like the civil servant in the first story, they have no idea what to do about that.
This novella has an unusual shape. It seems to be two different short stories barely connected. My guess is that Desai is again working out the problem of how to tell the story of the colonized in the language of the colonizer.
The epigraph quotes Jorge Luis Borges, "One thing alone does not exist—oblivion." The Artist of Disappearance seems to be about the internalized project of completely colonizing the indigenous culture. The project fails. - SQ
Book Review - The Great Alone
Author: Kristin Hannah
Review: Judy Bobrow
Genre: Women's Fiction
In The Great Alone Kristin Hannah skillfully gives readers two beautifully developed stories for the price of one. First there is the painfully tragic story of the Albright family, and second, the story of the Alaska of the 60's. Both stories examine survival and love – within a dysfunctional family and a community, and in the stark, unyielding wilderness of a new, untamed state.
Ernt Albright, struggling with personal demons resulting from the horrors of Viet Nam, envisions a new beginning in the 49th state. He convinces his wife, Cora, and teenage daughter, Leni, that living off the grid in Kaneq, Alaska, will be a wonderful adventure that will heal him and their family. Their romantic dreams soon give way to the realization that they are totally unprepared for the isolation, the bitter cold, the hunger, the darkness, and the endless struggle to survive. While Cora and Leni find friends and support within their new community, Ernt slips further into alcoholism, paranoia and violence.
There is violence as well in the wilderness of Alaska, but also a natural beauty so deftly descripted by Hannah. It captures Leni and will not let go despite the unhappiness and violence of her young life there.
The complex characters that populate The Great Alone are drawn realistically and with compassion by Kristin Hannah. Despite all its tragedy, I found this book to be an uplifting tale, that I highly recommend. JB
By: Aila Stephens
Genre: Suspense/Romance
Review by: D.A. Henneman - Stars: 4
I absolutely loved Brie's voice in this story, it grabbed me from the start. She comes across as being older and wiser, but we find out quickly that even strong and independent people can be victims of circumstance. After a fire at the restaurant where she works, resulting in the death of a co-worker, Brie is swept into a situation where her life changes fast. At the same time she is being offered a new job, she meets a handsome stranger who has everything a girl could want, expect a permanent address nearby.
We experience relationships through Brie's lens, and I found myself really connecting to her sense of humor as she navigates through job offers and life choices. The chapters when she is left to deal with a horrifying reality, were written in a jarring and disjointed way. It allowed me to feel her confusion and avoidance and was just as it would be for someone going through something traumatic. I appreciated that as a reader.
This book kept me guessing to the very end, and the author has done a great job at building a story with characters that I feel I could very well meet. Wonderful job on a debut novel, I am anxious to read the continuation of this story!
Author: Amor Towles
Review by: Judy Bobrow
Genre: Literary Fiction
A Remarkable Gentleman Indeed!
The saga of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, begins in 1922 as the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was being created from the vast territory of the former northern Eurasian empire, stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean. Amidst all the chaos of this event, Count Alexander Ilvich Rostov returns to his former home in Russia after a self-exile following a duel that ended badly, to attend the funeral of his beloved sister. As a member of the aristocracy, he is seen by those newly in power as a danger to the Communist Party, and the new republic.
The count is placed under house arrest at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow and during his decades-long stay in a closet-sized room on the isolated 6th floor of the hotel, carves out a new life for himself, putting to good use all the varied skills acquired as an aristocrat. And through the telling of his complex life and the lives of the people he comes in contact with at the Metropol, Amor Towles took me on an adventure in reading that had me both laughing and weeping and at the end, totally satisfied.
This book engages on two levels:
First, we get to know a man, Count Rostov, who is placed in what would be for most, an impossibly difficult situation. His former way of life no longer exists. He is isolated from his entire support group of friends and family. There is nothing of his old life that remains. But he is undaunted. We see him not adapting to these new circumstances, not making the most of them, not complaining, not sad, not disillusioned. What we see instead is a man so completely comfortable with himself, that he continues to live as he always has, even in his limited circumstances. He becomes both teacher and student, endearing himself and making himself useful to the hotel workers as well as guests of the hotel – those in the upper class who have survived the revolution to take on positions of responsibility and power.
Second, we get to experience parallel worlds – the life inside the walls of the Metropol Hotel, within the count's small quarters, and in the larger world surrounding the hotel, and within the newly formed republic. We are guided through these worlds with the skill, emotional depth and sheer artistry of Amor Towels. JB
Book Review - Crow Hollow
Author: Michael Wallace
Review by: Linda Grischy
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel! The journey takes you deep into the world of 1676 New England. James Bailey, an agent and spy of the King of England, is sent to Boston to investigate the details surrounding the death of Sir Benjamin Cotton, another of the King's agents. James and his trusted friend Peter Church, a Native American and Quaker who is traveling with him, quickly find themselves in a hostile land surrounded by danger. Prudence Cotton, wife of the deceased Sir Benjamin Cotton, is anxious for the King's agents to help her find her young daughter, who she believes is living with the Nipmuk or Abenaki people. The characters are rich and lively, the setting wild and fascinating. An adventure into the untamed New England territory ensues, as the truth of what happened to the village of Winton and Crow Hollow unravels. - LG
Book Review: Rules of Civility
I've been hearing that publishers don't like prefaces to novels. They say those are just a note to the author, not the reader. But I've lately read a couple of novels that were published with a preface. So I asked myself, why? The Kitchen House opens with a preface in which we see a woman hanging from a tree. The novel then tells us how that came about. That preface does a little work in giving the reader a sort of mystery: who, why, etc? Rules of Civility (Amor Towles, Penguin, 2012) is a far better novel that opens with a preface. I'm looking at it carefully to see why.
It opens with a date: October 4, 1966. So it does that little task, and we meet the narrator, an upper middle class Manhattan editor and her husband. Then we're told that the scene is the opening of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, the opening of a show called,Many Are Called, "portraits" the narrator says, taken by Walker Evans, taken surreptitiously on the subway in New York City, during the depression years. Evans had a camera up his sleeve, and took pictures of the people sitting directly opposite him on the subway, without their ever knowing they were being photographed. (If you have time, stop here and think about the epigraph, a quotation from Matthew 22:8 to 14, where Christ does some parable ending with "many are called, but few are chosen." So far I haven't figured that out, so I asked my local library to get the Evans book, Many Are Called. Still haven't figured it out. The epilogue of the novel is titled "few are chosen.")
The preface goes on to a little discussion of the nature of society these days, that is, 1966: too much drinking, for one thing. But it focuses on the role of the US in the world now that World War II has decimated our competition and the Russians don't seem to be much of a threat. Then the preface narrows down to Manhattan and to the exhibit of photographs taken back in the thirties. Depression and flappers.
And the narrator begins her personal history, her own life during the depression. She imagines that the exhibit might be quite a revelation for the younger people there, but for her it brings up old ghosts, and one old ghost in particular: there are two portraits of a man one surmises was once a romantic attachment. The first they see shows him "ill shaven in a threadbare coat" underweight, but bright eyed and addressing the world. Vibrant and naive. The second one they see shows the same man well dressed, filled out, handsome, sure of himself. Perhaps a little world-weary. But. The second picture they see is actually the younger version of the man. This is not about a young man finding himself. It's about a man losing himself. Or is it? The novel will be not about the rise, but rather about the fall, of Tinker Grey. Or not.
The narrator alludes to Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which you may remember is a poem about the moral bankruptcy of Edwardian England: "time enough to murder and create—or at least, to have warranted the dropping of a question on your plate." In the context the question appears to be the question of what has happened in her past. And the question on her plate is the question of what happened then, not just the events, but what did they mean?
And the allusion suggests at least some moral decay as a theme for the novel. I note that near the end of the novel the narrator again alludes to Prufrock, "There will be time for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions." The novel is bookended with Prufrock. ("And in the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo" ---the poem, like this preface, is set in a high society art gallery.) And the structure of the novel is rather well described there: a hundred visions and revisions. This is not a novel with a strong plot, where the protagonist confronts an evil and vanquishes that evil in the final scene. What it does is give us the narrator's vision of each character, and then at least one revision, in some cases several revisions, none of them really conclusive. Ultimately they are visions and revisions of society in New York City. Think The Great Gatsby, and also, Edith Wharton (House of Mirth, specifically).
And the theme of the portraits is carried out through the book, with some of Evans' portraits introducing sections, as if the novel, too, is an exhibition of a series of portraits.
The cultural density of the novel is impressive. And the writing is masterly. Like so many other writers today, Towles manages at least one simile, usually rather epigrammatic, per page. They are extended similes that account for much of the texture of the prose, and often for the cultural density that causes me to hear so much more per line. There are whole metaphoric paragraphs where the energy is concentrated like a black hole: but these emit a lazer light.
So. What does this preface do? It sets up a world context for the novel, and a social context, takes us into the depression through the eyes of a celebrated, photographer, who actually lived outside the novel, and lets us know that the novel will be very literary, by which I mean it locates itself in the literary world, takes up the questions our best literature explores, and then finally narrows down to the business of what happened to one particular man during the thirties, as seen from the point of view of one specific woman.
This preface is rich enough to be a novel in itself. It is a guide to reading the novel, raises all the themes the novel will work out. Is it really necessary? Would the novel succeed without it? Could this not have been handled as Chapter 1? Perhaps. In any case, I am grateful for the heads up. The novel is very rich and I love spending time with it. - SQ
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Literary Fiction
Review by: D.A. Henneman
An amazing story that examines the delicate subject of racism with grace and empathy. Ruth's story grabbed me from the start as she is put into an impossible situation by the hospital she works for. The choices she makes, and the story she decides to share, not only affects her life, but also the lives of the strangers she will come to know.
Along the way, we get to know Turk. His strong beliefs prompt a decision to prevent Ruth from caring for his newborn child with devastating effects. We also see things from the point of view of Kennedy, the lawyer that defends Ruth in the lawsuit filed by the white supremist couple. As the story unfolds, the belief system for all three of them are challenged in a fundamental way.
This story is about prejudice and tolerance. It is also about how our perceptions can flavor the decisions we make every day as well as the truths we share with others. This story is very much about human nature, the good and the bad, and shows that the smallest choice can make a huge impact on the lives of others.
Small Great Things was an amazing read and I also highly recommend reading the Author's notes. They gave great insight as to the inspiration and evolution of the story. - DH
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I was recently asked about my scariest Halloween memory, and of course I thought not of the time that I dressed up as a Confederate soldier–a story for another day, and a fact for which I deeply apologize–but rather, of this quote:
"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, … it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. … there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell."
Those are the words of Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards, from the famous "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon that he delivered to his congregation in 1741. In many ways those words just sound ludicrous and antiquated, especially when modern churches prefer to talk more about a god of love. But if you grew up in an evangelical church, especially one in the South, then you know that the basic idea—that you're a sinner and in danger of being sucked down to hell at any moment—is still alive and well, though it takes on lots of different forms. The best—and by best I mean absolutely the worst—form this takes is Judgment House.
If you're not familiar with Judgment Houses, they're basically the modern version of fire and brimstone sermons, but dramatized. I'll let this quote from JudgmentHouse.org explain the rest:
"The walk-through drama takes place throughout a series of rooms or scenes. With each room, a unique yet tragic story will unfold. …Throughout the first 6-7 scenes several main characters will have the opportunity to share, accept or reject Christ. After making their decision, a horrific yet common tragedy will occur, catapulting them, into Judgement."
So around the time I was 9 or 10, everyone in my small town suddenly decided that Halloween and trick or treating were like a step away from devil worship, so Judgment Houses became the Christian replacement Halloween. My parents weren't crazy about this trend — we were the Presbyterian minority in a town of Baptists and Methodists – so we just kept dressing up and getting candy, like Satan wanted. One year, though, my mom and I got roped into attending one somehow. For two hours, we followed the story of 4 teenagers, until they all climb in a car together to go to Homecoming, are killed in a horrendous crash, which ended with two of them skipping off with Jesus into a white light, and two of them being dragged offstage screaming while fire machines blasted and simulated the flames of hell.
I remember this particular play, because 1) I had never seen pyrotechnics in a church before, and 2) because it was around this time my religious anxiety ramped up. We didn't know it at the time, but I had and have obsessive compulsive disorder, which means that my brain constantly floods with my worst fears and tells me they'll all come true if I don't do certain things. When I was 14, I started to fear that I might not be a real Christian; that even though I faithfully read my Bible and prayed, I might be going to hell. After all, those kids in the fake car crash thought they were cool with Jesus—how did I know I wasn't fooling myself? I prayed more, I read the Bible more, but my fears just got worse.
Now, my parents tried to comfort me with the theology of our Presbyterian church. While the Baptists judgment houses put pressure on you to turn to Jesus, Presbyterians are Calvinists — they believe you don't have any free will in the matter, and that God decided a long time ago who was going to heaven and who was going to hell – like THAT was supposed to make me feel better. For a mental illness like OCD that feeds on uncertainty and fear of the future, this theology was like a church potluck. I spent the next ten years living in mental torture, with the fear that God hadn't chosen me, and that I would spend eternity apart from my family.
I think that I would have had OCD even without the religious exposure, but in my case, it definitely made it worse. And I know I'm not the only one who struggles with anxiety, with self-doubt, with feeling that I'm a bad person, because of religious indoctrination.
I understand the appeal of the afterlife—I think we all do. We want judgment for the Hitlers and Stalins and certain current presidents of the world. And we want to believe that death isn't the end when we lose someone we love.
But, even though there are lots of damaging things about the idea of Hell—the way it teaches us to fear ourselves, and to judge others—I think the idea of a Heaven that you might or might not get into is just as damaging: the way it causes people to do things out of fear instead of love, to numb the joy and pain of the present moment by focusing all our energy on the future.
As a counterweight to the Jonathan Edwards quote earlier, I want to end with some 20th century Modernist poetry:
Everlasting passing apparent imperceptible
To you
I bring …
— Myself — for the moment " –
Mina Loy, "Song to Joannes"
For the moment. Think about that.
I don't worry about damnation these days, or look forward to any kind of heaven, for that matter. What scares me now is the thought of missing my life because I'm living in fear of the future. So I just try to focus on the present – the everlasting, passing, apparent, imperceptible – Today.


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Vegetarian Chili
Created by Anna-Marie Rytter on January 27, 2016
This is a tasty vegetarian chili recipe that will warm your insides!
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 1h 10m
- Total Time: 1h 20m
- Serves: 4
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 tablespoons chili powder (add more or less to taste)
- 1/2 large onion, diced
- 2 medium zucchini, diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- 1 can sliced mushrooms, drained (or use fresh if you prefer)
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 1 large can diced tomatoes
- 2 cans kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can garbanzo beans (chick peas), drained and rinsed
- salt and pepper to taste
- Heat the oil in a large pot and cook the onions, peppers, and zucchini, until the onion is transparent. Add the chili powder and cook another couple of minutes.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add salt and pepper to taste.


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IFA 2017 in Berlin has seen a range of players in the smartphone market unveil their latest smartphone models. There has been a common theme of amongst these releases: they all feature hardware advancements that will facilitate AR experiences going forward.
The joint focus on introducing AR imaging capabilities indicates that the big tech players think that AR is going to go fully mainstream within the next year.
Let's have a look at some of the different devices that were introduced to us at IFA 2017.
The bulk of the Chinese multinational's CEO Richard Yu's presentation was taken up with introducing the Kirin 970 processor, the first of its kind to have AI built into the chip itself.
The Kirin 970 will first become available on the Huawei Mate 10 series of smartphones that are due to be showcased in Munich on Oct 16. This powerful new bit of hardware will underpin the AR capability of the company's smartphones.
These kinds of AI-infused processors are going to play an important part in the AR/VR landscape in the next few years. Microsoft in particular has announced that the consumer version of its HoloLens AR headset will have an AI coprocessor.
The tech giant introduced the latest models of the Xperia Line of smartphones to the world. The Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact will both feature the Motion-Eye camera that is capable of capturing 960 frames per-second video as well as anticipate action or smiles for photos. The camera is also capable of continually focusing on subjects as they move through a space.
There is also a 3D Creator feature that offers users the ability to scan 3D objects, which can then be used as stickers in messaging apps or as the basis of their own creations.
Both of these add up to a smartphone that looks to put some serous AR capabilities in the hands of its users.
The new Moto X will have AR filters integrated into its camera app, which will allow people to allow Snapchat-like embellishments and animations to their photos and videos without the need for a third party.
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Appellation: Alexander Valley
Grape Varietal: Zinfandel 100%
Alcohol: 17.5%
pH: 3.30
TA: 10.4g/L
Residual Sugar: 3.8g/L
Cases: 83 (12 btl)
Size: 375ml
The legacy began in 1978 when we produced our first vintage of Sin Zin for friends and family. Redemption followed in 2001 and Temptation in 2004. Over the years we talked about producing a late harvest dessert wine, but our late October rainfall often meant the grapes could not hang long enough on the vine to reach the high brix levels needed for dessert wine. California's recent drought changed that.
The western drought continued in 2015 and was once again the topic of much discussion. A cool spring, rain at bloom and hot July weather, along with the continued effects from the lack of rain contributed to lower yields. As a result the grapes had terrific concentration and superb fruit flavors at harvest.
The grapes for the third vintage of Salvation Zinfandel were harvested from a tiny two-acre vineyard on the east side of Lytton Station Road. The Whipp-Vandenberg Vineyard, also known as the SVWW block, was planted in 1981 and was purchased in 2000 by Wendy Whipp and Stewart Vandenberg. AVV fans around the country will recognize the names, we consider Wendy and Stewart as members of the AVV family.
On the morning of September 19, friends and family hand-picked the low yielding site, selecting the ripest clusters to maintain the perfect balance of sweetness and acidity in the finished wine. At the winery, the fruit was de-stemmed and fermented in half ton macrobins for quite a long time due to the high sugar level. After a light pressing the wine was aged in two American oak barrels and racked every four months for the first year to soften the tannins.
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It wasn't the kind of morning that you would drag your kids through so fortunately as empty nesters we wandered at a leisurely pace through Laurier House. Lucky us as there were a couple of unhappy children there that we didn't need to worry about.
We were super pumped to show our Canada 150 passport but as she said it's free so it doesn't really matter but they are recording postal codes so they know who does visit.
We spent considerable time outside comparing the 1903 photo to the current state of the house and dissecting what these changes made to the impact of the overall impression. The original version has much cleaner lines.
A decent start to the day saw us as the first people to tour the house. All of the attendants were excellent at answering questions even if they looked young enough to be in junior high.
The young girl in costume in the war-time kitchen was a hoot and so in character. The kitchen has just recently been redone to reflect what rations meant to the average household during the Second World War. I guess they felt it had more relevance than what William Lyon McKenzie King would have fed his guests plus there weren't s lot of records around for that apparently. It was interesting to note the statistics about the resurgence of home front gardens (as they are once again doing) and what the housesoldier had to contend with. I'm not convinced I want to make her vegetarian loaf but with meat rationed city folks didn't have a lot of options.
The original owner was a jeweller with several children. Supporters of Wilfred Laurier bought the house for the couple in 1903 and they entertained in style here until his death in 1909. She remained there for 2 years before she died and bequeathed the house to William Lyon McKenzie King. They were childless so as a close friend who was rising to power it made sense to them. He worked with local supporters for the funds and then did a fairly significant renovation before he moved into the house. He lived there until his death in 1950 at his estate (the cottage from Wednesday's pictures). As he never married and had no descendants he bequeathed the house to the Government of Canada.
He was a meticulous man in all regards and arranged supper seating plans and designed the menu for the cook. He had moved his political staff to part of the third floor and so during the war years there was a constant barrage of people and information streaming in. He had used the old storage room as his breakfast room and the wireless sits were it always did as he listened to Sir Winston Churchill.
It was very informative but unfortunately quite dark inside so pictures are of dubious quality. The dining room above was quite impressive in person but the picture just doesn't do it justice.
What isn't dubious is the quality of work that both these men put into their vision and their role as Prime Minister. Canada was indeed left richer by their leadership.
I hope you enjoyed the tour from your arm-chair as much as we did in person. Thanks for stopping by too read.
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At first, you will probably spend about 5 to 10 hours a week to promote your site. If these numbers don't seem feasible for your style of business, think about training an employee or intern. Some of the best experts at social networking sites are teenagers!
The chair that the mother-to-be sits in can also be decorated to look like a shower. Use poster board to draw and cut out a shower head and attach it to extend up and over the chair, then add streamers so they flow down over her like water.
Sunscreen: Along with the lips other body parts can get sunburned on long rides. When my husband goes on a long ride he always comes home with the skin on his hands really burnt. Of course those who are riding without a helmet risk getting burnt on the top of their heads, and on their faces. Water and sweat proof sunscreen would be best.
Musical Seats – Prevent arguments about seating by having the children switch seats every so many miles or minutes. Specific job assignments can be assigned to specific seating as well.
One great idea comes straight from the beloved, famous movie Toy Story. Woody, the cowboy character from the movies, is fun, friendly, and simple. Create this look with a simple yellow button up top, red ascot, black and white vest, blue jeans, and a pair of brown boots, topped with a nice brown cowboy hat. Your local thrift store or toy store should have everything you need to complete this getup. This cheap, inexpensive outfit will grab every child's attention, making your ranger the envy of the night.
This is truly a great attraction that has recently had its 50 years anniversary. It is situated at Griffith Park and is 113 acres in size. Every year close to one and a half million visitors visit the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. There are also numerous different shows and varied special events organized at the Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Rent a car in USA to reach these places as they take you there without wasting your time. Opening hours are daily from 10:00 until 17:00.


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While Ryan suffers with hypoparathyroidism, the exercise tips listed below are good for anyone! Whether you're working on a New Year's resolution or just trying to be more conscious of moving more, let us know what you think about Ryan's tips, and if you'd like to see more of these in the future.
Exercising when you struggle with hypoparathyroidism can be very challenging; I should know. I have hypopara myself. I have good days and bad days but I do my best to keep physically active because I know it helps me manage symptoms and ultimately feel better in the long run. The following is a list of tips that I incorporate into my own life in an effort to keep (or sometimes even start) moving.
- Don't do too much too soon: A surefire way to throw your body into stress (and thus lower your calcium) is to do too much too soon. Start with gentle stretching and walking and slowly and very gradually add more vigorous activities. Many of us who suffer from hypopara struggle with movement. You may find that walking for too long lowers your calcium; start slow and gradually increase movement over many weeks.
- Listen to your body: Start to become more aware of your body and know what is going on with it. If your calcium is particularly low on a given day, take it easy. On days where you're feeling well, you can push it just a little.
- Keep an exercise and symptom journal: Start to write down exactly what you did for exercise and whether or not you experienced any symptoms. By keeping a journal you can become more aware of your individual resistance to exercise. In addition, you can help your medical provider make changes, if necessary, to help you to better handle an exercise load. By journaling (and working with my physician) I learned that I need to take calcium before, during, and immediately after running. I would not have known that without writing it down.
- Recruit a reliable exercise buddy: For many people, starting out with exercise is half the battle. Finding a buddy at a similar level of fitness can help a lot. In fact, I would never have started running without the help of a friend of mine. Recruit the buddy and agree to meeting up to walk, swim, do water aerobics, or whatever other physical thing you have in mind. Even having a virtual buddy can help you with accountability.
- Add a little music: Music can help motivate and inspire. Make a play list of your favorite upbeat songs and play it only when you are exercising. Start with 1 to 2 songs and vow to get through your playlist. As you build your endurance and body's capabilities, begin adding songs to your playlist. Before you know it, you'll be moving to 12 to 15 songs!
- Don't give up: You will have good days and bad days. Trust that you can exercise. Trust that movement is not only fun, but it is extremely important for your overall wellbeing. Trust that your body will adapt and trust that you'll be able to listen and learn what your capabilities are. Most importantly, know that you can and will be successful.
Movement is important for not only your physical wellness but your entire wellbeing. Although having hypoparathyroidism makes it harder, you can and should still incorporate movement into your life. Start slow, listen to your body, and adjust your calcium as needed (with the help of your physician). Over time you will find that your body's tolerance to exercise will increase, you'll feel happy and healthier, and you'll be able to better enjoy your life.
Disclosure: Cal-EZ is supporting me financially through an athletic sponsorship; however, I was taking Cal-EZ prior to receiving the sponsorship because it works!
To read other voices struggling with chronic illness and calcium deficiency, please visit our new series, New Year, New Voices.


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Surfing Etiquette
The surfing etiquette is the most important thing to learn before paddling out. It is not so much about rules but more a code of moral conduct for everybody to stay safe and have fun in the water. The basic rules of surfing are not the same, they are more "common sense" and the surf etiquette is designed for safety measures. Surfers who don't repeatedly follow the etiquette are often given the stink-eye, yelled at, or to the extreme beat up.
The surfing etiquette is about the right of way, not dropping in, know where to paddle, not ditching your board, not snaking somebody, being respectful to others and the beaches, not being a wave hog, knowing what to do if you mess up and when if you are a beginner knowing to not paddle in a crowded lineup.
Don't worry if you accidentally drop in on somebody, apologize so they know it was not on purpose. If they still yell at you do not mind them as you will still find some egomaniacs that THINK they own a surf spot but do NOT own the ocean or that specific beach at all. These are rules just like driving rules and it is the real world. Now if you are always dropping in on somebody and being disrespectful, you will get a run in. So be aware of everyone around you at all times.
With the sport of surfing growing in popularity, there are more and more people in the way and the surf etiquette use is declining due to lack of etiquette education. Remember the ocean can be a very dangerous place, and without proper thought for safely, it can be deadly.
Beginners should definitely remember the surf etiquette before going out, and veterans should take a refresher course now and then. There is no such thing as seniority when surfing so all young, old, beginner, intermediate, and advanced surfers should know these rules.
What does it mean to have priority in surfing?
The right of way is the priority of the surfer closest to be breaking wave. This means that the person closes to the peak has priority. As you are paddling for a right handed wave and there is a person on your left, you have to yield for them and let them go.
There are a couple variations to this rule that will help you understand the right of way a little bit better:
If someone is already surfing and standing on a wave, don't try to get on the wave between them and the white water (right behind them). This reason is because if they are trying to do a cutback to the white water, they will run into you and possibly injure you or themselves. This is called back paddling and it is perceived as bad as dropping in.
Just because the whitewater caught on to the surfer on the wave, doesn't mean you can go ahead of them. Most surfers with some experience will be able to get speed and go past that section to the open face of the wave. This means that if there is already someone on the wave, do not get on it.
Split peak wave
A split wave is a wave that is breaking in half and offers a right and a left face to surf at the same time. In that situation, two surfers can take off on the wave, each going a different direction. If two surfers are at the peak and paddling for a wave, they should communicate and tell each other which way they would like to go and possibly go opposite ways.
If a surfer is on a wave and the wave closed out or the surfer wiped out, the next surfer down the line can go ahead and catch that same wave. As a beginner, I won't recommend doing this right away, and wait for you to gain a little more experience to do it.
If a wave is breaking all at the same time and it is not giving you an option to go left or right (close out) and there is two surfers on each side of the wave, it is recommended to kick off early to avoid a collision.
What does it mean to drop in surfing?
This is closely related to the wave priority rule of the surf etiquette…the most important rule to follow when surfing. This means that if a person is already riding on a wave or is at the peak, they have priority so don't go and take off in front of them. This will block them down the line, and is extremely annoying as well as dangerous.
If you have priority, and the person in front of you is trying to take off on your wave, I would recommend yelling "I got it" or "yep yep" and they will understand to not go if they had not seen you. If you are tempted to drop in on someone remember; no matter how good the wave is, you will ruin their wave, they will be extremely pissed off and nobody will get the wave.
How do you know where to paddle out?
This might seem like common sense but it is a very big part of the surfing etiquette. You should never paddle straight into the lineup where others are surfing. Paddle through the channel where the waves and not breaking and people are not surfing. It might be hard to find that area sometimes, especially in crowded beach surf spots. In that case go where there is less of a crowd to paddle through.
When paddling back out, do NOT paddle in front of somebody on a wave unless you are well ahead of them. Paddle behind them if they are up and riding the wave, take the whitewater hit or duck dive. You'll understand and appreciate more when it is you on the wave.
Sometimes you'll just end up being in a bad spot, and won't be able to go behind them. It is your responsibility to speed paddle to get out of his or her way. If you don't do this you might get run over.
In the worst case scenario, where you can't get behind them or the speed paddle didn't work, stop and wait for them to go before moving. It will be their job to not run you over. But try your best to get out of their way so they are not mad at you for stopping and less chances of you getting hurt.
Don't ditch your surfboard
This is very important and even more important when it is crowded in the water. Try to control and stay in contact with your board at all times. Surfboards are heavy, long, and hard, so if you let go of it, you might eventually hit somebody causing them serious harm.
This means that if you are paddling out and a big wall of whitewater it's coming towards you, don't let go of your board and throw it to the side and dive under the wave. DO NOT DO THAT! If you do, and there is somebody paddling behind you, this will destroy that surfer if the board hits them anywhere in their body! And you do not want that to happen.
This is a hard rule to follow when first starting out, but if you manage to get into that habit early you will become a much better surfer in the long run.
If you are a little bit more advanced, before the whitewater comes up to you, you can look back check if anybody is behind you. If nobody is behind you them go ahead and ditch your board if you feel it will be safer for you then performing a duck dive. Always keep in mind that this is not acceptable when there are other surfers behind you.
What is snaking a wave?
Snaking is when a surfer paddles around another (by making a big S) in order to get in the right position to get priority on the wave. Even though it is not specifically dangerous, it is very annoying and disrespectful. Wait for your turn in the lineup, and you will get respect. If you keep snaking people, you will not get respect and people will start to yell at you. Also being a local does not give you the permission to snake others if they are being polite, if they aren't then you make the call about being "that guy/gal".
Think about being at the grocery store with many people in front of you. You have been waiting in the line for a while now, and as you come up to the cashier to scan your groceries and make your payment, someone cuts you off and places all their supplies in front of yours so they can get served first. How would you feel? Exactly!
For beginners only: don't paddle out in the middle of the lineup
This kind of seems obvious but it still has to be mentioned. If you are a beginner surfer, do not paddle out to a crowded lineup of veterans surfers. Try to go to an uncrowned spot with surfers your level. And if you don't know, you will find out really fast because you will most likely be given the stink-eye, blocked and not be allowed to catch many waves.
Don't be a wave hog
If you can catch all the waves, that does not necessarily mean you should. This typically applies to longboarders, kayakers, or stand up paddlers. Since it is easier to catch a wave on these boards, it is tempting to catch them all. Catch a wave, give a wave. If you follow that motto, you should be good all around the world.
Respect all beaches
Do not litter on the beach, respect it like it is your home. Pick up your trash, and pick up some trash that isn't yours on your way out as well. It will be appreciated by locals and Mother Nature. Real surfers do not pollute ANY beach they go to.
What if you mess up during your surf session?
Nobody really mentions this part in the surfing etiquette, but knowing it is great. If you do mess up by dropping in on somebody or ditching your board; an apology will be greatly appreciated and will reduce the tension in a crowded surf spot. You don't have to bow to them and keep apologizing unless it's really bad and you hurt someone. But if you drop in on somebody it will be really selfish not to apologize and probably cause a rivalry for the rest of your day.
As we have explained the surfing etiquette, this might seem like a lot to remember before going out but most of it will become second nature and is mainly common sense. Just remember that being respectful will go a long way. So now go and have fun out there! See you in the lineup.


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Dr. Sanjay Gupta has recently reported on marijuana after eight months since his previous correspondence to CNN. Gupta apologizes for misleading people regarding marijuana. He now fully believes that weed plays a vital role in health care. A true scientific journey, he attests, requires the willingness to let go of all previous notions so that one can obtain the truth.
Gupta says it is not easy to apologize, but this movement, which he now supports, is much more important than he alone. The journey he spoke of is one which requires finding the truth. During his research, he discovered a growing support base of patients who use this drug, not to get high, but for genuine medical purposes. Gupta says the effect this plant has on the human brain has been documented for thousands of years. The journey is also about a "Draconian" system where politics tend to outweigh science, and unfortunately, patients get caught in the middle. The strict laws governing marijuana have prevented many physicians from effectively treating their patients.
His documentary Weed aired last August, and since then, he continues traveling the world, investigating knowledge, and questions around marijuana. During his investigation and research, Gupta met with dozens of scientists and patients, and many others who were seeking a deeper understanding of marijuana and its medical uses. He has conducted his own studies and laboratory analyses, and he has observed how marijuana molecules have been naturally harnessed for the use of medicine. Doctors have treated many conditions from epilepsy in children to chronic pain in adults; pain that can even come from the devastating condition known as multiple sclerosis.
Gupta is entirely convinced that keeping marijuana from patients is neglect by the medical community. As doctors, they have the responsibility of providing the best care possible. For this reason, Gupta apologizing for misleading people with his articles, such as the one published in Time Magazine, when he could have been working to better serve patients across the globe.
Perhaps due to Gupta's documentary, the southern state of Georgia recently passed a bill for medical marijuana by a vote of 171-4. This was a proposal no one really expected to be successful.
Many doctors in the country fear being ostracized for their administration of marijuana, but Gupta's next documentary will hopefully bring some of the patient success stories into the limelight. Although marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 substance (the most dangerous drug with no medical use), researchers are now agreeing that this classification is inaccurate, and perhaps one of the most influential reasons this plant has not been thoroughly studied.
Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has augmented her stance, saying she now believes restrictions should be lessened for researchers regarding marijuana. The drug also has a medical patent No. 6630507 for its use as a neuroprotectant, which shows to have potential in limiting neurological damage following "ischemic insults," such as traumatic injury. This bothers Gupta, who claims cocaine and methamphetamine are much more accessible than marijuana is for patients. Allegedly, every 19 minutes within the United States another person dies from prescription drug overdose. Many researchers and organizations have published negative reports on marijuana, which could be the reason people and legislatures in the United States have been misled, but Dr. Gupta for one, apologizes.
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Good morning from cold, grey Washington, everybody.
I woke up with a bit of an upset tummy today, so the only thing that sounded even remotely appealing was a PB & J and some hot tea.
I immediately knew why I felt so icky. It's because I had too much of this last night:
Apple pie a la (chocolate) mode. This, coupled with some CVS-induced poor decision making (read: Halloween candy) and my stomach was not a happy camper.
My Body Pump workout was really subpar. I had to take multiple breaks during the bicep and delts songs and was feeling too low energy to stay for Zumba afterwards. I guess that's the price you pay when you put junk into your body.
I tried to mitigate it by having a light dinner of spaghetti squash faux pasta, with some pasta sauce and a sprinkle of grated parmesan for dinner. This dish is seriously so good for people who are looking for a pasta substitute – just stick that baby in the microwave for 11 minutes and then cut in half, de-seed, and scrape into "noodles". Unfortunately, the damage had already been done and I woke up feeling not so hot.
With the holidays coming up (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), I know it's going to be a challenge to stick to healthy choices when there will be a plethora of delicious, heavy treats just waiting to be consumed. I know this time of year is hard for everybody because of all these special occasions, as well as the cold weather that makes you only want to eat stick-to-your-ribs kind of food. A crisp green salad doesn't sound nearly as appealing as a big bowl of hot spaghetti when it's cold and dreary outside.
This weekend, I'm hoping to compile a list of healthy versions of comfort food. Don't get me wrong – sometimes you need to have a the real thing and there are just some meals you shouldn't ever try to fake. But a lot of times, it is easy to make just a few changes and fill that craving without all the unhealthy extras.
Food For Thought: What's your favorite fall comfort food? Is there a holiday staple that you can't get enough of?
My holiday staple is the stuffing at Thanksgiving. I swear, there's some kind of crack in it because I can never get enough. I feel like my family has begun to make two batches of it: one for me and one for everybody else. Stef is a huge stuffing fan as well, so I have a feeling that it's going to be the star of our Thanksgiving this year. Who needs turkey?


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Dario Feliciangeli: Uniqueness and Non-Degeneracy of Minimizers of the Pekar Functional on a Ball
Tid: On 2019-03-27 kl 17.00 - 18.00
Föreläsare: Dario Feliciangeli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
Plats: Seminar Hall Kuskvillan, Institut Mittag-Leffler
In this talk, we review some properties of the Pekar functional confined to balls. In particular, some recent results, obtained in collaboration with Robert Seiringer and concerning existence, uniqueness and non-degeneracy of minimizers, are presented. These properties were already known to hold on the full space (thanks to works of Lieb and Lenzmann).
The study of the confined case is motivated by a recent paper by Rupert Frank and Robert Seiringer, in which the validity of the aforementioned results is conjectured and taken as a working assumption.
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Cloth Toilet Wipes: The Prepper World's Worst Idea Ever
On April 17, 2017, I went to Costco and filled my huge shopping cart with a total of 180 rolls of toilet paper. Double rolls. I felt like a king walking out of there with the cart piled high.
Now, in early November, we have about 16 rolls left in a household of 2 adults and 2 older teenager. Two guys, two gals.
Not a bad investment, and I've always been the kind of guy who likes to stock up anyway so I can avoid shopping. In prepper circles, though, a TP stash is looked down upon and most survival types worth their salt will say something like this, "Forget stocking up on toilet paper.…Read More...
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Waterless Hygiene and How to Keep Yourself Clean
Now, there are numerous situations in which disaster could leave us short of water. They could be just for a couple of hours or situations that lasted for months or even years. Besides the lack of drinking water, how would you stay clean in a world short on water?
This brings us to the topic of waterless hygiene, and believe it or not, there are actually products on the market that provide you with quite a good cleansing using no water at all. A bottle or two in every bug out bag would be a wise investment.
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Sewer Systems and the Problems They can Cause Preppers
As late as the early 1800 sewers systems in much of the world consisted of throwing the waste products out the window into the streets and hoping the rains washed them away. Today (at least in this country) we have nice modern sewers systems that keep our streets clean and the waste is treated before it goes back into the environment. This helps to keep us healthy by maintaining good sanitation and hygiene. We almost always have access to good water and waste disposal systems.
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Sanitation and the use of Bucket Toilets
Here is a good article on bucket toilets and sanitation written by a friend of mine.
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As the first month of the new year ends, are you feeling good about your resolutions, financial goals and healthy lifestyle choices? What would your life look like if you were emotionally healthy? How would your life be different if your debt was gone? How much energy would you have if you were at your ideal weight? What would your ministry accomplish if you were on fire for God?
The Clergy Wellness Task Force along with the West Ohio Conference Benefits Office and Communications Team joined together to create tools and resources to support you in your life journey toward wellness. These resources, found on the West Ohio Conference website, speak to the four key wellness areas in our lives: Emotional, Financial, Physical and Spiritual.
To access these tools and resources, go to our website at www.westohioumc.org. On the RED banner, click "Resources" and select "Wellness." This page will reflect the four areas of health for you to explore. For example, the Clergy Retirement Security Program is a financial resource so you would select "Financial Wellness" and find the corresponding icon. If you are looking for spiritual help, our partners in ministry at Ohio Health have created videos that can be found under "Spiritual Wellness." Did you miss the open enrollment health insurance meetings? You can still review the presentation by going to "Physical Wellness", selecting "Medical" and scrolling down. Searching for some ideas on how to practice emotional first aid? Select "Emotional Wellness" to view a TED talk from Guy Winch.
We believe these resources will be helpful to you. Should you need assistance, please contact the West Ohio Conference at 614-844- 6200. With the new year upon us, what better time to see yourself anew.


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