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Quantify -Acrostic Word Game
by Fenny West
1/03/2007 / Poetry
Quantify -Acrostic Word Game
Using the initial letters of the word 'QUANTIFY', this is an acrostic word Game. Simply read and post your reply as an acrostic poem using the initial letters of the word given at the end- Opportunity. When you finish, post another word of your choice for the next person and let's keep it going as long as possible. It is a challenge to whoever wants to crack the hidden acrostic. Lets keep it running as long as possible.
Quality comes through diligence and persistence
Unlimited doors open when you watch and pray
And have faith in God, trusting in His Word and Way.
New Life is costly yet it is free, yours for the asking.
Territory that you excel in is the place of your calling.
Is this making sense, my friend and fellow poet?
For for eye has not seen and ear has not heard as yet
Your distinction to function under divine unction.
Copy it rightly
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MILAN – Most people drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. The tantalizing aroma and the strong, robust taste of coffee are just uplifting.
Coffee is not just a beverage to some; it is a cup of hope and reassurance which could be highly addictive.
Most of us are so hooked on coffee and its kick, that often we look for the most caffeinated coffee drinks. And currently, Black Insomnia coffee holds the title.
It is said the stronger the coffee is, the more mental clarity and focus it provides.
Therefore, when it comes to an important day that demands our utmost attention, we need our coffee fix—and darker the hue, the better.
10 Most Caffeinated Coffee
The FDA recommends no more than 400 milligrams of caffeine per day, which is four to five cups of a regular blend of coffee. Until a few years ago, that number was just 300 milligrams per day, so take a note. Nevertheless, coffee is still a widely popular stimulant.
Here are the top 10 most caffeinated coffee drinks.
1. Black Insomnia
With a whopping 58.5 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce, Black Insomnia is the world's strongest coffee today. Sean Krista from Cape Town, the coffee capital of the world, created this deadly concoction.
2. Death Wish Coffee
Now second to Black Insomnia, Death Wish Coffee, the former world's strongest coffee, has 54.2 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce. This sought-after coffee brand uses robusta beans to get a dark-roasted brew, instead of the widely-used arabica.
3. Starbucks Espresso
Starbucks is the world's largest and trendiest coffeehouse company. This coffeehouse is popular for their vast number of coffee varieties and large sizes. Starbucks' espresso is quite strong with 50 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce.
4. Biggby Espresso
Originally known as Beaner's, Biggby is a franchise based in Michigan and is one of America's most rapidly growing coffee chains. Their two-fluid-ounce shot of espresso contains 50 milligrams of caffeine per shot. The coffees at Biggby do not contain sugar.
5. Peet's Coffee Espresso
Based in San Francisco, Peet's Coffee & Tea is quite famous for its gourmet coffee. They were one of the first to introduce dark-roasted arabica coffee, such as French roast. Their espresso contains 46.7 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce.
6. Nespresso Coffee Capsules
Nespresso coffee capsules are up to three times more expensive than your average loose ground coffee. Each pod contains 44.4 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce. There are 25 different "Grand Cru" arabica an robusta capsules available, and two Limited Edition Grand Crus are released every year.
7. Gloria Jean's Coffee
Another popular coffeehouse franchise, Gloria Jean's beverages are espresso-based. A single shot of espresso at Gloria Jean's contains 33 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce.
8. Shock Coffee Triple Latte
Shock Coffee Triple Latte is a ready-to-drink iced coffee beverage with 231 milligrams of caffeine for an eight-fluid-ounce can. Their products are one of the best-tasting packaged drinks on the market. Their drinks are created and advertised as "energy blends."
9. Chameleon Cold-Brew Coffee
Chameleon Cold-Brew Coffee is a highly-concentrated caffeine cold coffee drink with 270 milligrams of caffeine per serving. Their coffee drinks must be diluted with water as they have more caffeine content ounce-per-ounce than traditional hot-brewed coffee.
10. Nescafé Ice Java
Nescafé is an instant coffee brand by Nestlé. Their Ice Java is a syrup that requires the addition of milk. You can either make a nice cold beverage of your choice or use it as an ice cream topping.
A 470 milliliter of Nescafé Ice Java bottle contains 1,880 milligrams of caffeine. A cup of 0.85 fluid ounces contains 100 milligrams of caffeine, which makes it ounce-for-ounce the strongest coffee product on the market.
There is a reason why we find a cup of cappuccino or an espresso so appealing. You see, coffee acts as a central nervous system stimulant. It can fight drowsiness because caffeine acts as an adenosine receptor antagonist.
Adenosine is an important sleep-regulating hormone which facilitates sleep by binding to its receptors and slowing down neural activity.
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Dance Academy is an Australian teen dance drama television series created by Samantha Strauss and Joanna Werner. The show premiered on May 31, 2010 on ABC1 and ABC3. In early 2012 it premiered on TeenNick. The series follows the lives of eight students in the Dance Academy; Tara Webster, Katrina Karamakov, Ethan Karamakov, Samuel Lieberman, Abigail Armstrong, Christian Reed, Benjamin Tickle, and Grace Whitney.
Season 1 premiered May 31, 2010and season 2 premiered March 12, 2012.
There are 26 episodes in Season 1, 26 episodes in season 2 and 13 in season 3.
Now a film about the series will be held, that will be release in 2017.
Dance Academy Episodes
|Number of Episodes
|Season Premiere
|Season Finale
|May 31, 2010
|July 5, 2010
|February 17, 2012
|March 7, 2012
|July 8, 2013
|September 30, 2013
Season 1
|Ep. No.
|Air Date
|Learning to Fly
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|Christian is arrested for street gang-crime. Since his only brother won't take him in, academy director Kennedy arranges to save Christian from juvenile detention by assigning him to the dorm and appealing to senior Ethan to be his mentor, but neither knave wants that and Ethan catches Christian stealing his wallet. Sammy has Tara write a list of pros of Ethan, who just dumped another girlfriend, which Abigail finds and sends to everyone.
|June 1, 2010
|Behind Barres
|June 2, 2010
|June 3, 2010
|Real Men Don't Dance
|June 4, 2010
|June 7, 2010
|Crush Test Dummies
|Christan shows Ethan some real Australian street hip-hop. Meanwhile, Tara is the self-proclaimed expert on crushes and is happy to educate Kat in every aspect of the mysterious art form.
|June 8, 2010
|Tara is overjoyed by a rumour that she and Damien Lang are dating. Meanwhile, Abigail is unwilling to accept the changes in her developing body.
|June 9, 2010
|Kat creates a video of her dancing that becomes an internet success. Meanwhile Ethan views Christian as a friendly rival and the two boys begin to compete with each other.
|June 10, 2010
|Through the Looking Glass
|Christian's best mate Aaron comes to stay and reveals the truth about the robbery they committed. Meanwhile Abigail's control issues are spiralling out of control and she is caught shoplifting.
|June 11, 2010
|One Perfect Day
|Tara is elated when Ethan asks her to dance in his choreographic assessment piece. Is he finally beginning to see her as romantic potential?
|June 14, 2010
|Presure is building at the Academy as the students prepare for exam week.
|June 15, 2010
|It's Open Week at the Academy when parents watch their children in a series of demonstration classes.
|June 16, 2010
|Turning Pointes
|Kat introduces Tara to her new boyfriend; Abigail struggles to convince her therapist to allow her to return to ballet classes; and Sammy tries to convince Abigail to help him out with ballroom dance classes.
|June 17, 2010
|My Life en Pointe
|Petra Hoffman arrives at the Academy on exchange from the Berlin Ballet School; Kat has been ditching classes to spend time with her new boyfriend; and Tara kisses Christian behind Ethan's back.
|June 18, 2010
|Free Falling
|Kat is upset when her parents ignore her 16th birthday and throws herself a huge party at their harbourfront home in revenge. The house quickly fills with people and events spiral out of control.
|June 21, 2010
|A Midsummer's Night's Dream
|It is school camp and everyone is dreading the trip away, especially Tara who has been made an outcast after the party.
|June 22, 2010
|Betty Bunheads
|German exchange student Petra Hoffman is thrilled when she is invited to stay at the Academy; Abigail is making more trouble for Tara; and Sammy and Abigail have begun secretly kissing.
|June 23, 2010
|Fairest and Best
|Junior footballers from the Institute of Sport have been sent to the Academy for some specialised training. The challenge is on between the dancers and the footballers to prove which is the toughest sport.
|June 24, 2010
|Ballet Fever
|When the Board decides to cut hip hop and jazz from the curriculum Kat goes on the warpath. Tara and Christian find themselves together at the beach and their spark is rekindled.
|June 25, 2010
|FOMO: Fear of Missing Out
|It's a month since Tara's injury and her plaster is due to come off, but Tara sems more focussed on her new boyfriend and planning the school formal than she is in attending her doctor's appointments.
|June 28, 2010
|Flight or Fight Response
|The dat for Christian's robbery hearing has been set but his defence strategy relies on his best mate, Aaron, however Aaron has vanished.Meanwhile the time has come for Tara to go back to dancing.
|June 29, 2010
|BFF: Best Friends Forever
|Christian's conscience gets the better of him and he changes his story to protect his friend. Meanwhile, Ethan has received interest from a dance company in Spain.
|June 30, 2010
|In the weeks since the court hearing, Sammy and Christian have been inseperable, but when Christian ditches Sammy to spend time with Tara, what Sammy feels is uncomfortably a lot like jealousy.
|July 1, 2010
|The Deep End
|Rehearsals for 'The Nutcracker' are underway and Tara discovers that being the star is not all it's cracked up to be. Sammy is forced to admit that his feelings for Christian have changed.
|July 2, 2010
|Learning to Fly, Part 2
|The end of year production has arrived. Things don't go smoothly whent the director is not happy with Tara's performance and Abigail hides her costume.
|July 5, 2010
Season 2
|Ep. No.
|Air Date
|In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated
|It's a rollercoaster year for Tara and her friends as they begin Second Year at the national Academy. Relationships fall apart as new ones are forged and shaking things up are two new students.
|Tara finds a new mentor to admire in Saskia Duncan, the youngest principal dancer in the Company's history. Saskia takes Tara under her wing, but gives her a few things to worry about; life if there's a future with Christian.
|Faux Pas De Deux
|Kat finally makes friends with the coterie of outcast girls at school, but despite having sworn off dancing, finds herself helping them choreograph a piece for drama class. Meanwhile Ben Tickle is upgraded into second year.
|Tara's ecstatic when her mentor, Saskia, is appointed to teach the second years at the Academy. But Tara rapidly discovers the 'perfect' Saskia may not be the supportive teacher she hoped for...
|After Sebastian questions his son, Ethan, on the impressiveness of his piece at the Showcase, Ethan takes it out on Abigail, his soloist, in an attempt to create a spectacular performance.
|Like No One's Watching
|Sammy's little brother Ari arrives at the Academy, throwing Sammy's hectic life schedule into havoc; and Kat auditions to be a football cheerleader, happily encouraged by Ben. While Tara is having self esteem issues.
|A Choreographed Life
|Tara feels the time she spend with Christian is impacting her dance study and suggests they 'pause' their relationship.
|Tara decides to take action after realising that Saskia's continual critique of her dancing could jeopardise her mid-year exams, while Christian ditches his partner exam to hang out with Kat.
|The Break
|With exams finally over, both the boys and girls go out to let off some steam. However Sammy is tense after failing his exams, Tara's still hurting from her breakup, and Grace decides to stir up trouble.
|A Good Life
|Sammy returns home for his Grandpa Morrie's funeral and to ask his father to support his Academy tuition. An act of sabotage severs frenemies Tara and Abigail.
|Self Sabotage
|Grace encourages Tara to take action against Sakia's spiteful treatment of her; Kat commences training for the Moulin Rouge which leads her to a bug realisation; and Sammy is assigned a tutor, Ollie.
|Breaking Pointe
|Tara's preparations for the Prix de Fonteyn are struck with a devastating blow when Saskia's bullying results in an injury. Meanwhile, Kat convinces Miss Raine to grant her an audition to return to the Academy.
|Determined to prove Saskia wrong, Tara risks serious injury and possible expulsion from the Academy by competing in the Prix de Fonteyn Preliminary round.
|Rescue Mission
|Tara runs into Ben who's volunteering in the hospital's leukaemia ward performance. Tara discovers Ben's deepest secret. Back at the Academy, Kat struggles with the culture shock of First Year.
|Moving On
Tara negotiates her return to the Academy after being expelled. Meanwhile, Ethan's search for ongoing employment leads him to a position choreographing a fringe musical.
|Sammy gets a second chance at the Prix de Fonteyn when he takes a road trip with Ollie to audition for the regional round. Sammy's feelings resurface and Christian invites himself along on the trip.
|Love and War
|The rivalry escalates between the first and second year students resulting in a dance battle; and Tara becomes unhinges when Grace entices her to become less serious.
|Catch Me If I Fall
|During an excursion to the circus, Christian's dad makes promises he's unable to keep; Tara tries to repair her friendship with Kat, and Sammy goes public with his new romance.
|The Naturals
|Tara opens herself up to love again and hunts for a new crush, Finn tries to convince Abigail to be the star of his new show, and Grace goes to extreme lengths to get Zach's attention.
|Tick, Question Mark, Cross
|Abigail's forced to make a choice between her ballet and the fringe musical. Her situation intensifies when her mother, Anthea, unexpectedly arrives. Meanwhile, Sammy tires of Ollie's persistent criticism.
|Ladder Theory
|Ben attempts to out-psyche Christian during the National Prix de Fonteyn round and Sammy's father is attending the Prix to watch him dance for the first time in years.
|Win or Lose
|Grace's father retracts a promise to visit her at the Academy, her self-assurance spirals. Christian's bounce back from his Prix de Fonteyn elimination drives him towards some reckless behaviour.
|Love it or Fight it
|During rehearsals of Peter Pan, Ben uses various tactics to prove to Tara that he's a lead man; while Kat's efforts to research her character in the production lead to a realisation about her relationship.
|The Prix de Fonteyn
|The Prix de Fonteyn is two days away. Tara is stunned as Grace has returned to Sydney as representative for the UK team. The students' lives are changed forever when a tragedy strikes the Academy...
|The Second
|After a sudden tragedy, the Academy students must find a way to come together and help each other out in this time of darkness.
|The Red Shoes
|Abigail and Tara join forces to go head-to-head with a formidable enemy. Christian has to choose betweent the girl he loves and the desire to escapse and Ben is offered an opportunity of a lifetime.
Season 3
|Air Date
|It's three weeks into third year and Tara and her friends are already feeling the pressure. Speculation bubbles when the National Ballet Company announces it needs three temporary fil-in roles in the corps de ballet.
|July 8, 2013
|New Rules
|On their first day as fill-in dancers, Tara, Grace and Ben encounter cliques in the corps de ballet. Meanwhile, Christian has no interest in going back to the Academy.
|July 15, 2013
|Second Chances
|Kat struggles to stay positive and her determination to advance into Third Year is morphing into dangerous patterns. Meanwhile, Grace plays match-maker, and Christian's lost his place at the Academy
|July 22, 2013
|Short Cut Clause
|Ben is flattered when Saskia offers to be his mentor and it becomes clear there's potential for them to dance together brilliantly. Lured by the promise of greatness, Ben is torn between the chance to fast-track his ambitions and his loyalty to Tara.
Back at the Academy, Tara worries about Kat but has no idea how to help her; and Abigail and Christian disturb everyone with their new unlikely friendship based on causing mayhem.
|July 29, 2013
|Negative Patterns
|With the Company's Sydney season of Giselle coming to an end, it's almost time for Grace, Tara and Ben to give up their temporary places. However, Saskia has different plans for her protégé, Ben, and arranges a special audition with the Company's artistic director.
Meanwhile, Grace's world implodes when she's rejected by her new friends and Miss Raine confides that her new romance with Marcus has become more serious. Plus, Zach continues to give Christian special treatment by allowing him to participate in a music video Ollie is producing.
|August 5, 2013
|Fake It Until You Make It
|While the Third Years rehearse for their upcoming regional tour, the Academy goes a little Hollywood when a film crew arranges to use their building as a location for a new indie movie. Abigail defies Miss Raine and auditions for one of the minor acting roles.
Meanwhile, love might be in the air but the right people aren't cast as Romeo and Juliet. Grace does everything she can to undermine a new relationship so that her position on the tour is guaranteed.
|August 12, 2013
|The Third Years are having the time of their lives on the road performing in country towns across Australia, but they are prioritising fun over performance. Zach promises to shake up the cast list if they don't start committing.
A different side to Grace emerges on tour, while competition between Ben and Christian erupts and Abigail tries to distance herself from what happened in Barcelona.
Back at the Academy, Kat clashes with the movie's third assistant director, Jamie (Sean Keenan).
|August 19, 2013
|Travelling Light
On the final leg of their tour, the Third Years are invited to a traditional Indigenous ceremony and return the hospitality by offering a dance class to the local kids. Christian finds he is an unexpectedly good teacher, while Tara and Ben struggle with the realisation that their onstage chemistry is underwhelming.
Meanwhile, Abigail tries to claim the solo role in the contemporary ballet but is blocked by past disappointment; and Kat's insecurities grow until an inevitable confrontation forces her to see an enemy in a new light.
|August 26, 2013
|Don't Let Me Down Gently
|A career-making performance opportunity brings out the best and worst in everyone, and an injury that sidelines Ollie prompts him to use someone to get ahead.
Meanwhile, Kat finds it hard to readjust to her regular ballet life.
|September 2, 2013
|Christian and Ollie prepare for Streetbeatz, a major hip hop competition; Kat prepares to audition for a minor role in Coppelia; and Ben takes a stab at revenge.
|September 9, 2013
|Start Of An Era
The countdown to the final Company auditions has begun when suddenly it's a whole new playing field, and Christian and Tara come to a final resolution about their relationship.
Kat joins forces with Ben and Grace to inject some fun back into the end of the school year and Abigail and Ollie get the offer of their lives but at the worst time possible.
|September 16, 2013
|The Perfect Storm
The dancers have finally reached the ultimate test as auditions for the National Ballet Company have arrived. These auditions bring superstitions, old competitive battle lines and the performances that will determine the rest of their lives.
Meanwhile, Kat struggles with life in the spotlight and how much it means to her to be a success.
|September 23, 2013
|Not For Nothing
During the final episode of Dance Academy, it's judgment day. The Third Years sit before the Company panel and learn their fate - whether they'll be offered a professional contract with the National Ballet Company or not.
Meanwhile, one of the gang is transported on a very different journey.
|September 30, 2013


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Drafting a Manifesto
This will be my last post here, but I'll keep the site up. I'm consolidating my writing and my client work on my portfolio site. Things will look different there soon.
It seems fitting to wrap up this blog with a letter of intent for the work I still want to do. This isn't the end of anything, but rather an extension of what I've been up to for years.
So here is a draft of my manifesto. I wrote draft again so you'd know that I'm nervous about it and still considering each part. When I'm a little more sure of the text and my values, I'll put this up on my portfolio site. In the meantime, I'd love to hear what you think. And if you have any suggestions for anything at all, you're always welcome to email me. Lots more to come! Onward.—NF
Manifesto — Draft
Gather contradictions.
Ask questions.
Make messes.
Try and see.
Be clear and be kind.
Trust the process.
Walk until you find the circle.
Talk to people, not at them.
The product isn't the point.
Build it together.
There's room for all of us.


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Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich have put out a new mix – listen to it below.
Titled 'You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry Mush', the 11-minute mix was put together to soundtrack fashion line Rag & Bone's latest runway show for New York Fashion Week. As Pitchfork points out, Yorke has soundtracked the brand's shows twice before.
According to the description on Soundcloud, the music is a "collage of unreleased beats and such like.. featuring Mauro from Atoms for Peace and a mashed beat by Jonathan Greenwood esq".
Atoms For Peace recently broadcast two shows from their three-night run at the London Roundhouse via Soundhalo. The service, which was premiered by Alt-J in May of this year, allows users to download high quality MP4 videos and audio tracks to their phones as the show they are attending is taking place.
The band recently revealed that they were pulling their music from Spotify after claiming that the streaming service was "bad for new music". In addition to removing their debut album 'Amok', Godrich also removed his band Ultraista's debut album from Spotify, while Thom Yorke's solo album 'The Eraser' has also been taken down.


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{Writing Project: "Cinda-Story" intro, 1a, 1b, 2,}
three red shoes
There was a pair of shiny red shoes with tan soles and slender heels. They'd been unearthed from Cinda's grandmother's things. When the idea of travelling and performing had come to fruition, Sylvia Blackfeather Wyatt's two sons and one daughter faced a small hallway closet packed to the limit with costuming and things. They tried to contain their search to only the costuming, avoiding the tower of crates with show bills, love letters, cards, sheet music, news sheets, photographs, and a singular pair of red shoes.
"Should we take the records with us?" Elise whispered. The three looked over at the crates of records in one synchronized turn. Each had been in this cramped space before–without either of the other two. They'd revisited it after it had been closed up and declared off limits by their father; each returned for their own individual reasons.
"May as well. We can decide what to keep and sell the others," Cinda's father suggested.
He turned back to small horde of shoes, most of which needed good polish and re-soling. Fox was in charge of sorting through the hats. "And the red shoes?" Elise whispered.
"They seemed to frighten your Aunt, and perhaps with good reason."
"What good raisin?" Cinda asked her Uncle Fox as she trotted around in the red shoes. Her small feet fit flat in the front part so she was delightfully agile as she clunked about.
"Mother had worried after Elise. So she gave her her favorite pair of shoes."
"Were they bad luck?" Celeste asked, giving the shoes a worried look. She had tried them on just before Cinda had, and had actually been secretly clunking around in them awkwardly for a time now.
"They're made for dancing," Willow Anrep, her previous instructor, had told her once, spying her in them, "but you should mind the fit and your ankles."
Both Cinda and Fox paused to look at Celeste with a frown. Fox said, "To some I guess they'd give a bad turn, but Mother thought it a good gift. She worried after her only daughter."
Celeste's mother would never give her only daughter shoes like that.
If they hadn't been an important part of a costume in one of their more controversial plays, Celeste would have kept them near her bunk or in her dormitory at school, to gaze at them the same as she did with all those playbills and illustrations pinned in straight and organized lines on the walls. As it was, Cinda still had access to those shoes, which she delightedly paired with her hand-me down emerald peacoat.
After her fourth birthday, however, Cinda was not to be seen in those shoes. Seeing her in her peacoat and dull brown boots, her Father had to ask. "No Sylvia Shoes?"
Cinda had come to know this important thing about red shoes: She was going to receive a scar–on her back– while wearing red shoes. "Now Cinda! What's this?"
"I know things," she explained. And then she cried.
Father held her. He hadn't known what to say and so he didn't. Cinda was just glad he looked so worried and serious and that he combed the hair back from her face and held his big white cloth square to her nose. For a fleeting moment she thought maybe she should get this scar business done while her father was looking this way; while he was still around.
But Cinda knew about scars. Remmy had them on his face from when his whole family had died. He saw them in the small round pits like constellations whenever he looked in the mirror. It made him cry. Rose had a scar on her face, too; a knife fight, she claimed. "Didn't realize it right away. It's best to not get distracted by a little bit of blood in a knife fight," she'd told Cinda's brother Simon. She'd been given Cinda a haircut at the time, and Cinda was sure to remain extra still. George had been in a fire. He'd woken all aflame and to this day he avoided the campfire or anything bigger than a candle's winking. He didn't want to scare anyone, the cousins whispered, that was why he kept his legs and arms covered, even in the hottest weathers. But Cinda had seen him without his shirt with Rose once and he was scary, and so were those noises.
Cinda didn't want a scar.
"A bite can scar, you scratch at it 'nough. Or a scratch picked at." Rafe listed the least painful ways of scarring. "A quick touch of a hot iron, or match, or somethin' and it'd be sore sure." He had a few small scars: mishandling a knife gutting fish when he was green, catching his leg on wire climbing a fence, a game of darts gone awry with a whistling past his ear before catching the edge of it.
In the end, it was easier for Cinda to avoid wearing red shoes. It wasn't as if the shoemakers only offered her size in red. And it wasn't as if she had that kind of mother to worry after her.
by Leslie Darnell
proceed to "a return"


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Goat Cheese Marinara Dip
Warm up this indulgent and creamy dip in a snap. With only a few ingredients and even fewer steps, this is a great recipe for new cooks and it's perfect for holiday entertaining.
4 oz softened cream cheese softened
8 oz goat cheese softened
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon dried basil
Cracked black pepper
1 cup marinara sauce
1 bag of Pretzel Crisps®
Mix together the goat cheese, cream cheese, basil, and parmesan cheese. Add in some black pepper to taste.
Spread the mixture out in the center of a baking dish. Pour marinara around the goat cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Serve with Pretzel Crisps®.


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Bollywood filmmaker Zoya Akhtar says as more and more women make their mark in the workplace in Indian society, it is reflecting in the country's cinema as well.
Zoya told, "Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful. I think the influx of women at the workplace is also changing the narratives in our cinema." She added, "There are women everywhere now, whether it is a film producer, director, studio head,publicist or in marketing , therefore there is a change of sensibility in the narration. As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will grab the limelight."
Zoya's forthcoming work is 'Lust Stories', an anthology of films by her and Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee, with whom she had earlier collaborated for 'Bombay Talkies'.
On 'Lust Stories', which will release on Friday, Zoya said, "We did not intend to make stories on women... It happened coincidentally. We did not sit together saying 'Let's make stories on sexual desire and lust of women'. But eventually, that has happened in all these four stories. You know why? Because that is how the world around us has changed, where a woman is voicing her thoughts on sexuality."
Having said that, she added, "When it comes to writing characters, whether men or women, I think a good writer writes good characters. I know many men who, for years, have written strong, progressive women characters. I think how a writer and filmmaker think about women always translates into their work."
So, which woman character reflects Zoya's own personality? The daughter of celebrated poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar answered, "I write my films with Reema Kagti, and I think all the characters that I have written, somewhere or the other, reflect my thoughts, ideology and morality. I cannot choose one... But surely more flawed characters are closer to my heart."
As a filmmaker, Zoya wrote and directed the male bonding film 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'. She believes making such a road trip film on women would be much easier today. The 'Luck By Chance' maker said, "Of course, the same film could have been made on women back then, but it would be easier today. But when I wrote the film, I wanted to make it on men. So I do not know if I had to struggle more to find people to back the film say seven years ago. Since I did not try, my aim was rather to make a film about three boys and their experiences. I cannot say how different it could have been if it was made with women. But, I am sure, commercially it may be much easier now."
In 'Lust Stories', her story revolves around the class difference in our society between house helps and their employers. Zoya said, "Though the film is releasing worldwide digitally, I want the Indian audience to watch it. They will be able to relate to it the most. They would identify with the situation... how differently they treat their house helps, who are practically a part of their family. They will hopefully think about how they behave and change it."
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Kimberly Zsebe amongst her Icons Series in Los Angeles. (Image by EMS)
I first met artist Kimberly Zsebe at Charity Burnett's Sangria Fine Arts in Encino, a social mixer and micro gallery that Burnett throws from time to time. I admit that I was quickly enthralled by Zsebe's quiet demeanor and confidence. It's easy to become infatuated by her "Moulin Rouge" vintage looks and old-Hollywood retro style, a style more towards a Wong Kar-Wai or Baz Luhrmann film. It's important for me to mention Zsebe's style, because when she enters a room, people's heads turn. I've seen and witnessed this every time I've been with her in public. If it's true that an artist can become a piece of art themselves, then Zsebe is evidence of that.
John Scane, Brett Rubbico, Kimberly Zsebe, and Bradford Salamon at Brett Rubbico Gallery.
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My parents met in the late 1960s during the war in Southeast Asia. My father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and my mother a diplomatic English translator. Since I am a product of the Vietnam Conflict during that era, I may have a sense of what French Indochina may have been like from the stories of their parents who have now passed on. It is through my own filmmaking fantasies that I envision the kind of roles my artist cohorts could play if we weren't engulfed in the art scene, but in Hollywood itself.
One night I ran into Kimberly at an art opening in Chinatown. It was as if she just walked off the set of a political thriller between the French and Ho Chi Minh set in 1945 Hanoi. I could humor myself with these fantasies all day long on these art scene characters I constantly rub elbows with and burn gigs of flashcards on. Most importantly, though, is Zsebe's talent for art.
Eric Minh Swenson and Kimberly Zsebe at CSUN. (Image by Alex Schaefer)
If you are lucky enough to meet Wisconsin-native Kimberly Zsebe, you will be impressed by her easy-going charm, political acuity, keen art knowledge and the fact that she knows more about the nuts and bolts of camera equipment than any Brooks graduate I know. There's a quiet maturity about her unlike a lot of artists and creative types who wear their egos on their shoulders. With Zsebe I recall the lyrics to my favorite singer/songwriter Van Morrison... "No Guru/ No Method/ No Teacher."
When I courted her for a film, we had a remarkable six-hour conversation ranging from Van Halen, to passing kidney stones, to using egg tempura. It was through this conversation that I felt privileged to document a short film on Zsebe quietly working on her Icons Series at her mid-city Los Angeles house.
In this film, Zsebe fuses religious iconography with contemporary pop-culture commercialism to craft a realistic satirical indictment of our current cultural milieu. Getting to know Zsebe is to find she is as cerebral as she is talented. As most artists use their work as a means to escape the realities of life or make sense of it, Zsebe listens to CNN in the background as she works. Perhaps it is the reality of the time and space that we're living in that motivates her work. Zsebe is not overtly political -- but don't get her started. She even went so far as to threaten me with bodily harm if the recent election went the wrong way. Of course, she was joking... I think (since I never got one of her typical chuckles when she's being funny or acknowledging someone else's joke).
As for her politics I'll let her tell you, but what really lies in Zsebe's soul is a wit for fashion, art and fun with a Poker face.
Kimberly Zsebe quietly at work. (Image by EMS)
It was Charity Burnett who once told an artist in front of me that an Eric Swenson film "will put you on the map." Whether that's the case or not, it's the least I could do in filming a talented-emerging artist who does not come across as annoying or needy. She has a confidence and coolness about her such that one can potentially have a six-hour skull session with on anything and everything. Zsebe is yet to be a household name in the art world, but this iconoclast is only on the way up. Everyone who knows her speaks highly of her work, and in a world of hyper-sensitivity, ego-driven narcissistic mania and self loathing angst, Zsebe quietly paints and paints and paints.
No guru. No method. No teacher.
At the conclusion of filming Zsebe and moving on in life, looking back I can honestly say that I spent four quiet nights with Kimberly Zsebe.


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Private equity house Odyssey Investment Partners has completed its acquisition of US broker Integro.
The deal was first announced in August.
Integro, which launched in the US in 2005 amid then US attorney general Eliot Spitzer's attack on the top brokers, has made a big push into the UK in recent years.
The company debuted in the Insurance Times Top 50 Brokers this year in 26th place after buying Howard Global, NPA Insurance and Kite Warren Wilson.
Following the completion of the takeover, the Integro management team led by William Goldstein, John Sutton, Toby Humphreys and Marc Kunney remains in place, and certain members of the management team and other employees remain shareholders in the company.
Goldstein, previously president of Integro, has been named chief executive. He said: "We are thrilled to be aligning with Odyssey, an active partner that will add value in so many initiatives, including refining strategic direction, accelerating acquisitions, improving financing, and supporting our deep commitment to innovation and client service.
Odyssey managing principal Jeffrey McKibben said: "We are excited to complete this transaction and to build on Integro's exceptional success to date in the brokerage and risk management sectors.
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Minnesota's Next Luis Arraez Emergence
In the early morning hours of May 17, Mariana Guzman of Twins Latinos reported that Arraez was on his way to the big leagues. He quickly proved that his strong bat to ball skills would work at the big-league level and began a full court campaign on taking over the starting second base role for Minnesota. Expecting anyone else to jump from nondescript prospect to the second coming of Tony Gwynn in 2020 is lofty at best, but we can take a stab at a similar success story.
Given the depth employed by Minnesota on the farm, projecting another emergence isn't necessarily groundbreaking. If there's a player positioned to fulfill the role however, it's Travis Blankenhorn in my eyes.
A third-round pick back in 2015, Blankenhorn was grabbed out of Pottsville High School. He's now 23-years-old and coming off a strong Double-A debut. After posting an .850 OPS in his second pro season, he trended downwards at both Low and High-A the next two seasons. Reaching Pensacola, he re-established himself and earned a spot on the 40-man roster this winter.
Blankenhorn couldn't be more different from Arraez when comparing skillsets. He's got some swing and miss to his profile and the .325 on-base percentage across 462 games isn't earth-shattering by any means. He's clubbed 56 career dingers, 19 of which came last season. The pop should play at multiple positions, and that's where a good deal of his value lies. After splitting time between second and third to start his career, he ventured to the outfield a good amount last season. This isn't a super utility player, but he's not going to be stretched by moving around the diamond.
When trying to nail down someone that looks the part of an unexpected riser, something that would seemingly need to be present is opportunity. The path created by a 40-man roster spot blazes that trail, and the flames are fanned by the prospect of additional utility. Given the 26th spot on 2020 major league rosters, and the fringe utility types that the Twins may employ, Blankenhorn represents a strong backup plan. It was Jonathan Schoop and Ehire Adrianza that presented holes for Arraez to fill last season, and the latter could once again offer up an opening.
The largest wrench in any sort of continued steam for Blankenhorn would be his strikeout rate. After a .343 OBP at Cedar Rapids two seasons ago, he's posted a .299 mark at Fort Myers and just a .312 tally in Pensacola. The power is nice to see, but his promotion will come on the back of an expectation that he can hold his own against big league pitching. If that takes another step forward, and the defensive utility remains strong, then the only thing holding him back should be playing time.
Andrew Vasquez was the first selection from the 2015 draft to make the majors, and LaMonte Wade Jr joined him last season. Jaylin Davis debuted for the San Francisco Giants, but it's Blankenhorn that could be the first (maybe only) top five selection to accomplish that feat. He's a name to watch in the year ahead, and another Arraez-type breakthrough would certainly be a great development in Twins Territory.
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A mechanism is presented for the bifurcation from one-dimensional spatially periodic patterns (rolls) into two-dimensional planar states (planforms). The novelty is twofold: the planforms are solutions of a Boussinesq partial differential equation (PDE) on a periodic background and secondly explicit formulas for the coefficients in the Boussinesq equation are derived, based on a form of planar conservation of wave action flux. The Boussinesq equation is integrable with a vast array of solutions, and an example of a new planform bifurcating from rolls, which appears to be generic, is presented. Adding in time leads to a new time-dependent PDE, which models the nonlinear behaviour emerging from a generalization of Eckhaus instability. The class of PDEs to which the theory applies is evolution equations whose steady part is a gradient elliptic PDE. Examples are the 2+1 Ginzburg-Landau equation with real coefficients, and the 2+1 planar Swift-Hohenberg equation. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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In this view, a person's horoscope reveals their inflexible destiny, which they are bound to accept, for good or ill, with no choice in the matter. However, a deeper understanding of astrology reveals that it reinforces the concept of free will by giving us the tools to make intelligent choices, rather than blindly following the path of least resistance. When we voluntarily choose to control our actions and reactions, we can change the nature of our lives and become the masters of our own destinies. What is astrology? According to popular astrology writer Linda Goodman, "Astrology is the study of man in relation to celestial bodies, or to be precise, the planets. To understand astrology, we must discuss karma, because karma is a major foundation of astrology. Evolution - Conscious Evolution. Conscious Evolution Evolution is happening right now in and around us.
It is influenced by all that we do and don't do, and all that we are and are not. Whether we are aware of it or not, we have a lot to do with how evolution unfolds, especially right here on Earth. Recent offspring in life's 13.7 billion years of cosmic, planetary, biological and social evolution, we are on the leading edge of the evolutionary process. We share that emergent edge with everything else in the universe. Consciousness, Wisdom, and Self-Realization. Www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-hameroff/cajal.pdf. Institute of Higher Consciousness.
Spirituality and Conciousness. Consciousness. Consciousness. Consciousness. Www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-hameroff/cajal.pdf. Electromagnetic theories of consciousness. Several theorists have proposed that consciousness can be understood as an electromagnetic phenomenon.
Neural correlates of consciousness. Figure 1: The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are the minimal set of neural events and structures – here synchronized action potentials in neocortical pyramidal neurons – sufficient for a specific conscious percept or a conscious (explicit) memory.
From Koch (2004). The Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) can be defined as the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept (Crick & Koch 1990). The Neurobiological Approach to Consciousness Consciousness is a puzzling, state-dependent property of certain types of complex, biological, adaptive, and highly interconnected systems. Reality and Consciousness: Electromagnetic theories of consciousness. MindPapers: Contents. Search tips There are two kinds of search you can perform on MindPapers: All fields This mode searches for entries containing the entered words in their title, author, date, comment field, or in any of many other fields showing on MindPapers pages.
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History of the issue Questions about the nature of conscious awareness have likely been asked for as long as there have been humans. Neolithic burial practices appear to express spiritual beliefs and provide early evidence for at least minimally reflective thought about the nature of human consciousness (Pearson 1999, Clark and Riel-Salvatore 2001). Consciousness. Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many scientists, but in recent years it has become a significant topic of research in psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience.
The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness—that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness. The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences (e.g., "tell me if you notice anything when I do this"). Dennett - Consciousness Explained. Online papers on consciousness. Search tips There are three kinds of search you can perform: All fields This mode searches for entries containing all the entered words in their title, author, date, comment field, or in any of many other fields showing on OPC pages.
Surname This mode searches for entries containing the text string you entered in their author field. Advanced This mode differs from the all fields mode in two respects. Note that short and / or common words are ignored by the search engine. The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness. The young women had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs.
In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable. So picture the astonishment of British and Belgian scientists as they scanned her brain using a kind of MRI that detects blood flow to active parts of the brain. When they recited sentences, the parts involved in language lit up. Try to comprehend what it is like to be that woman. Neural correlates of consciousness. The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) constitute the smallest set of neural events and structures sufficient for a given conscious percept or explicit memory. This case involves synchronized action potentials in neocortical pyramidal neurons.[1] Neurobiological approach to consciousness[edit] A science of consciousness must explain the exact relationship between subjective mental states and brain states, the nature of the relationship between the conscious mind and the electro-chemical interactions in the body.
Progress in neurophilosophy has come from focusing on the body rather than the mind. In this context the neuronal correlates of consciousness may be viewed as its causes, and consciousness may be thought of as a state-dependent property of some undefined complex, adaptive, and highly interconnected biological system.[4] What characterizes the NCC?
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Meal Ticket
Independent retailers face a lot of competition in the packaged diets category, but a well-informed staff and expertly curated selection can secure loyal customers and repeat sales.
Packaged diets can seem like a no-brainer at first—one of the few types of products that are cut and dried. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Independent retailers need to be experts on fish nutrition in order to offer recommendations to customers on the right options for their aquariums.
Unfortunately, selling foods is not as simple as stacking them and watching them fly off the shelves. Customers need help to find the products that best fit their needs. If people go out the door with the wrong foods, they may not be successful in their aquatic experiences, resulting in the potential loss of a customer. Frankly, few customers actually know which foods are best for the fish they have. Many people simply buy the cheapest food, the food with the fancy packaging or even the food with the familiar label. They are often unaware that there might be a better choice—this is where you come in.
I recommend extensive signage suggesting that customers talk with one of your expert food and feeding consultants about the right packaged diets for their fish. Additionally, talk to customers about their food needs and adjust your stock to better cater to them, rather than simply restocking existing inventory. Although packaged diets tend to take up more than their fair share of shelf space, aquatic stores should dedicate several aisles to these essential products. Every customer who walks through your front door will need food for their fish, invertebrates, coral, etc. You should have every contingency covered, so no one needs to shop somewhere else for this staple category.
Ideally, independent stores should concentrate on brands or lines of food that are not sold by other retailers in their general vicinity. Some research may be necessary to do this successfully, but it will pay big dividends in the long run. Instead of carrying the most popular and widespread brands, I recommend you consider fish food producers that are actively researching fish nutrition and introducing new and better foods and feeding concepts. And don't sell a food unless you have tested it in your store.
Packaged fish food comes in a wide variety of types, with flaked foods being the most popular by far. There are basically two categories of these: staple or complete diets and single-ingredient specialty diets. A staple flake food will contain a variety of flakes, usually of different colors, with each one representing a different ingredient. An example of a single-ingredient flake would be spirulina algae, best accepted by vegetarian fish but usable with others as well. The kind of flaked food you should recommend depends on the population of a customer's aquarium.
Let's say a customer is keeping Rift Lake cichlids from Lake Malawi. The majority of these fish are vegetarians, feeding primarily on algae encrusted on the rocks. They are best served using a spirulina flake as the main diet, but this should be supplemented occasionally with a staple flake to add variety. Meanwhile, most Central and South American cichlids are omnivorous. Customers with these fish should primarily use a staple flake, but augment it with a carnivore flake and frozen foods of animal origin.
The size of the flakes also makes a difference. If you are feeding large specimens, large flakes will result in less waste. Very small or juvenile fish should be fed flakes that have been crushed into smaller particles, or one of the diets made especially for fry.
The most important quality of a flake food, at least to the fish, is its odor. Fish have very highly evolved olfactory senses because the water in many habitats is not clear enough to use sight as the primary means of finding food. If a flake smells good, a fish is much more likely to eat it. When you open a can, jar, bag or any container of fish food, the stronger the odor, the more palatable it will be for most fish. Of course, manufacturers know this as well, so some add flavor attractants to the flakes so the fish will feed more aggressively. There is nothing wrong with this as long as the quality of the original protein is not compromised.
Flake food was always my form of choice when it came to feeding fish in my hatchery. But I used aquariums, just as hobbyists do today. Large commercial fish farms use vats or even ponds to condition fish for breeding. In these facilities, pelleted foods work much better, producing very little waste. Picking up on this, fish food manufacturers have increasingly migrated away from flakes to pellets for consumers. I can say without reservation that a good pellet, produced with high-quality ingredients, is far superior to the vast majority of flaked foods available.
Your best bet for expanding sales in the fish food department is to recommend both flakes and pellets to all customers. They can alternate, perhaps discovering for themselves which form their fish prefer. In general, the shelf life of a pelleted food is longer than a flake food. This is due to the smaller surface area of the pellets, which protects them from both oxidation and moisture damage. Still, always store packaged foods (opened or unopened) in a cool, dark, dry location. And be certain the lid, cap or bag is tightly closed.
If there is a brand of fish food you prefer over all others, advertise and recommend that one the most. Position your favorite line of food in a high-traffic location, such as on an endcap or directly across the aisle from your checkout counter. Freestanding displays of packaged diets can be located anywhere, so I suggest small satellite kiosks to augment the inventory on the primary fish food aisles.
Even though flakes and pellets make up the bulk of packaged diets, there are a number of other forms. Particularly utilitarian are the flat disc-shaped foods that sink to the substrate for bottom-dwelling fish to enjoy. Feeding sticks that float (at first) are excellent for predatory species to snatch from the water's surface. Flakes always sink rather quickly unless you sprinkle them on the surface, while pellets and sticks can be manufactured to float for a considerable length of time or sink immediately.
Finally, remember that sales of fish foods typically make up a large percentage of your return business. It is critically important that you have this segment of your inventory tuned to perfection. Every competitor out there sells fish food, so you need to be the one that does it best.
Edward C. Taylor has been in the pet industry for more than 40 years as a retailer, live fish importer and wholesaler, and fish-hatchery manager.


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Home > Journal > Vol. 25 > Iss. 1 (2017)
Article Title
From Deliberative Democracy to Communicative Democracy in the Classroom. A Response to "Education for Deliberative Democracy"
This response to Samuelsson's typology for assessing deliberative democracy in classroom discussions views his analysis through an equity lens. It offers Young's model of communicative democracy as a resource and argues that incorporating that model's emphasis on greeting, rhetoric, and storytelling into the typology can help to promote more equitable deliberative communication in the classroom. It offers specific tools, based on the author's development of deliberative pedagogy in a biology classroom, that teachers can use across disciplines and educational settings to help promote more equitable deliberative communication in classroom discussions.
Response to Article
Martin Samuelsson, Education for Deliberative Democracy: A Typology of Classroom Discussions
Recommended Citation
Weasel, L.
From Deliberative Democracy to Communicative Democracy in the Classroom. A Response to "Education for Deliberative Democracy".
Democracy and Education,
(1), Article 8.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol25/iss1/8


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Has anyone else out there had that awkward moment when you facebook creep on your ex-boyfriend from a few years ago and…
You both have the same haircut?
Yeah? No? Well that happened to me yesterday. And I laughed out loud with glee. You see, I am a white, queer, cis-woman with SHORT hair. Not shoulder short or chin short. No, normally my hair is two inches long… when I grow it out. Yeah I cut my hair "like a boy" and I love it. It's easy to manage. It's fun to play around with. It's a GREAT conversation piece.
For me, it's also a political statement.


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We are so pleased to welcome on board Monique Wood, who is the new friendly face of our Henderson reception. Monique previously worked for a Chartered Accounting firm in the central city, but as a West Aucklander is loving the opportunity to work close to home. When she is not here running the Henderson reception, Monique loves spending time with friends.
Congratulations to Rafe Williams in our Kumeu office and Christa Louis in our Henderson office, who have both been studying extremely hard and have now completed their Chartered Accountant qualifications. Congratulations also to Wendy Dong in our Henderson office, who has been promoted to Senior Accountant.


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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
I signed up with the Real Estate Agent today - a bitter sweet moment - some private tears thats for sure - Its like I am happy to leave here - the town itself has not been a kind place really - I think too many thought I should just cop it sweet the killing of my husband - but they were only the people who did not know and sadly it is mainly the more "professional" people in town who are like this - I have had too many who would once sit down with us and have coffee in town walk past me, ignore me, - but I usually step right up in their faces and Say a bright " hello" which makes me smile because I can see how it disconcerts them 0 in some way I feel and I know its not my imagination - I have stepped out of the "respectable widow" role and am seen as a shit stirrer..a role I relish because it is the shit stirrers who make change happen - and its not easy to be in this mindset -
Tomorrow I have to front up to the Port Macquarie Base Hospital for day surgery - its exploratory - as you can imagine I am sick in my guts about this after Don's last time here when they sent him down to Sydney with inadequate notes which exacerbation what was done to him - but needs must.
Its simple stuff I know but it scares me more than you can imagine - to be in their hands, unconscious - to have to trust that the right things will be done - wish i felt lucky but time and circumstance have shown me we are not "the lucky family".
Feel like a big sook - have a taxi booked already and a friend who will spend the night after with me so am lucky - the damage done out of what was done to my lovely Don runs so deep and as I pack up my house/ my life - as I go back into the world that killed him I realise how damaged I really am. And thats whats left when those of us who see those we love abused and killed in the medical system deal with. There is not body to care about this. There is no counselling for this. Nothing. Those who have had rellos killed can hopefully access some help but for those of us...over 18,000 in 1995 who have rellos killed by medical negligence there is nothing at all - but go home and go on - I figure that by now 16 years later the figures of those killed is much much higher - and add to that the hundreds of thousands of those permanently injured - you can't even contemplate. If this many planes dropped out of the sky due to pilot negligence it would be a national disgrace - It Is a national disgrace...but protected and submerged because there is no system of honest and open investigation - much needed and overlooked - No one wants to tackle this issue.
I think my home will sell quickly - it is so lovely, unique and peaceful out here. When I come out of town to here its almost as if a sigh of peace descends upon me as I drive through the gate - I just hope people who appreciate this will but it.
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- Andrew said...
Shit stirrers and activists do make things happen. Power to you. A woman died here in Melbourne recently after an operation to have her tubes tied, or something like that. The outcome of that will be interesting. Medical things are very inexact sciences. Of the stats you mention, some will be medical wrongs, but some will be just things that have happened through no fault.
What an exciting new life you are moving on to.
- 11:26 pm
- Cazzie!!! said...
Take care Therese, you are in my thoughts today my friend xoxo
- 4:27 am
- FoxyMoron said...
When our daughter Sarah died from SIDS, we were helped by an organisation that was then called SIDA, started by other bereaved parents.
When my brother was murdered we were helped by the Homicide Victims' Support Group, why can't there be something started for victims of medical negligence? From the stats you quoted it is sorely needed.
Feeling for you on selling the property, although I feel it's right for you, it must be so, so hard.
- 9:15 pm
good luck with the house sale. What is the exploratory surgery about? Have you had an endoscope?I know you have had some symptoms of heartburn recently.
This is my hobby horse at the moment, having discovered I have Barrett's oesophagus and the alarming increase in the cancer associated with it,(a 6 fold increase over the last 20 yrs). Fortunately, seems like a very slight possibility but it reassuring that I will be monitored for the rest of my life.
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- Middle Child said...
Andrew - the stats are that 18,000 were accepted by authorities as being medical negligence, error etc - there are many more deaths in hospitals in Australia but these are acceptable as they are people who would have died anyway - the 18,000 are those directly killed as a result of medical intervention - this is the shocker the medical error action group MEAG has this all on their website. Their leader Lorraine Long helped me to launch my book and I am a member of the group - wish I had known about it before Don went to Hospital
- 6:28 pm
- Middle Child said...
Cazzie thanks - am home and alive!!!
- 6:28 pm
- Middle Child said...
Foxymoron - not and that is the sad thing - there is absolutely no help and support at all - you are on your own and people as a rule do not comprehend the damage
- 6:29 pm
- Middle Child said...
Its women's secret business some polyps/fibroids and a D and C - will know on next Wednesday but I feel everything will be okay. I hope so for you as well
- 6:30 pm


text: by Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com Teal We Meet Again Teal We Meet Again "This morning is about teal, and the gratitude each of us should feel whenever we have an opportunity to enjoy their presence."- Outdoor writer E. Donnall Thomas, Jr. in "Small Packages"-----On one of the final days of the special early season that the Feds give to waterfowlers every September, the truth was becoming painfully obvious as we sat and listened to the wind blow and blow in the first blushes of daylight.We were early. And the teal were late. Which explained fully why it was so quiet in the stubble-filled Mossy Oak layout blinds that were being occupied by myself, Texas outfitter J.J. Kent, and his longtime waterfowling friend Kelly O'Neill. Time for Bo the black Lab to go to work on an early teal hunt. (Lynn Burkhead photo) Quiet because under the morning's bird-less skies - as a fresh northerly breeze threatened to scour the Red River Valley countryside of blue-winged teal that were quickly migrating through - we had already reached the critical mass moment that all waterfowlers know.The moment when you wonder if the birds will really show.Or if this duck hunt is destined to become the kind of "snipe hunt" you were duped into years ago while a kid at summer camp. Over the years, thanks to countless duck blind sits, I've grown accustomed to that feeling and the anxiety that it can bring.Until I hear the day's inaugural motion of wings whispering above as the Creator splashes the first rays of daylight upon His earthly canvas.This time, the initial provision of winged music came courtesy of a single teal that zipped by overhead, turned on a dime, and then corkscrewed in for a landing. Right behind a spinner, that is, a Mojo teal decoy with its rapidly rotating wings advertising that our spread was open for business."Check," I thought as I rose to flush the teal.Except that the bird refused to concede that I had it cornered by my shotgun barrel.So I stood up and took a couple of steps forward. Still, no wild flush from the decoys. Then another couple of steps forward, and still nothing.Grown past the skillet shooting days of my youth, I moved forward once again.Only to watch the teal erupt from the water and quickly put another spinning wing decoy between us. Waiting until it cleared, I was finally able to touch off a shot...for a clean miss. And then another shot was let loose...with identical results."Checkmate," I could swear I heard as the teal flew off in a flurry of motion and speed that would make a fighter pilot blush with envy.A bit red-faced, I slunk back into the layout blind again, hearing the soft guffaws emanating from my waterfowling companions as they openly suggested that I borrow a crowbar to straighten out my barrel. Bo, a black Labrador owned by Texas waterfowling outfitter J.J. Kent, proudly displays a September blue-winged teal. (Lynn Burkhead photo) But as so often happens in a duck blind, wingshooting's version of payback was served a few moments later - after J.J. had dropped the morning's first bird when a single bluewing buzzed by - leaving me as the primary person softly chuckling.And offering up the use of a cheap crowbar after a flock of teal roared by overhead at warp speed.In the freshening breeze, these teal had the afterburners on and then some. And my two blind mates could never quite catch up. Pretty soon, we were all laughing.And hoping for a grand early teal hunting show.To be honest, those hopes were tempered this fall just a year after one of the best local teal seasons in memory.Last year, early September rains, abundant bluewings, and a steady migration through the Central Flyway had kept North Texans like myself in the birds from start to finish.This year, however, after a brutal summer of record heat and drought, water was tough to come by in the area north of Dallas/Fort Worth.And so were September teal.Until the final few days of the season, that is.As I sat there in my blind reflecting on all of this and wondering at the differences that hunters can see from one year to the next, I suddenly heard J.J. hiss for us to keep our heads down. Though small in size, blue-winged teal are big in early autumn beauty. (Lynn Burkhead photo) He followed that warning with a series of short and sporadic high pitched quacks from his Buck Gardner teal call. Those bluewing mimicking sounds were soon followed by a roar of wings - many of them, in fact- splitting the air over our heads.A flock of 30+ teal sped over, banked hard, and displayed the tell-tale powder blue speculum's that mark one of the most striking of all waterfowl on the wing. In seconds, the birds had executed a 180-degree turn over the skinny water that Kent's Tanglefree decoys floated in and were peeling back in our direction hard and fast.Suddenly, they were in front of the decoys with their flaps down, their feet reaching for the water, and the wind from their wing-beats brushing us in the face. Proving that good things come to those who wait, Texas duck guide J.J. Kent shows off an early teal season stringer of bluewings. (Lynn Burkhead photo) That's when J.J. cried "Get 'em!"And we did. This time, no crowbars were needed for our barrels as we all shot straight and dropped a nice handful of birds. Enough that Bo the black Labrador retriever had to finally get to work marking and retrieving birds as he fulfilled the call of canine DNA coursing through his veins.As Bo eagerly worked to and fro, we all smiled, laughed, and enjoyed the wind borne beauty and bounty of fall.Teal we meet again next September.Editor's Note:To learn more about J.J. Kent's "Kent Outdoors" outfitting service in North Texas and southern Oklahoma, visit the Web site www.kentoutdoors.com ; e-mail Kent at email@example.com ; or call him at (903) 271-5524. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up