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This is about a remote area in west central British Columbia, Canada called the West Chilcotin. Surrounded by numerous glacial mountain ranges, alpine lakes teeming with wild Rainbow Trout, and full of wildlife. Living here goes from no running water or electricity to spacious log homes with all the conveniences and without the smog!
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Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you had as nice a day as we did here in the Chilcotin
. The sun was shining and the temperature well above freezing all day, so other than a brisk wind, we had a glorious day. Sun certainly improves the mood!
A lovely lady down at the south end of Nimpo Lake likes to live and celebrate life in her own distinct, happy manner, and one way that she does that is to do nice things for others.
Andy called me today after being up at Nimpo and told me that I should go up and take pictures of the unusual 'art work' lining Highway 20 all through Nimpo Lake
. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance but I have a pretty good idea of what it looked like because I saw my friend's artwork last week around her place.
Andy sounded quite surprised at all these different shapes, colors and sizes imbedded in the snow all along the highway, stating that there must have been at least a hundred of them!
I'm sure there were at least that many!
Bernice likes to fill any container possible such as plastic glasses, baking sheets, salad molds or anything with an unusual shape with water dyed with food coloring. She sets the containers out to freeze and then pulls the frozen shape out and sets it in or on the snow. Sometimes she decorates her shapes with interesting objects. One such piece of art over at her place had some kid's tiny tonka like toys imbedded in the ice. I'm sure he'll be wondering where the heck his little toy trucks went.
The whole effect of these brightly colored objects in fresh white snow reflecting the sunlight is really quite dazzling
. In particular, it's fun! Bernice has fun making her objects and it brings a smile to the faces of those that see them because they seem so out of place.
Heaven only knows
she painstakingly placed each and every one, whether late last night or early, early this morning. But it would have been a surprise, a gift from her to everyone else. Just because.
Sadly, we've lost a moose in the area
. Mary down at the north end of the lake noticed coyotes milling around on the lake acting strangely and finally took a run down to have a look. There wasn't much left of a moose laying on the ice, only legs and the gut part of the carcass. Impossible to say what killed it but the coyotes have definitely been scavenging it. That explains the presence of the two coyotes I saw out on the ice yesterday at two different times.
I'm really hoping that the dead animal isn't the calf that has been hanging around with its mother along that side of the lake all winter.
You have to wonder if there were enough coyotes to run a small moose down, if it was wounded by native hunters and only made it that far, or if wolves actually pulled it down
. Mazy insists that she heard two wolves howl the night before last and I know that some people have seen a couple around. The jury is still out on that track I've been seeing but there's certainly no reason why the odd wolf wouldn't have followed the game down out of the mountains. However, this is also the favorite time of year for the aborigines to claim their 'cultural hunting rights' (How their 'ancient cultural heritage' can include rifles and snowmobiles is beyond me.) so
it's more than possible that the moose was wounded and was taken down by predators or simply died on the ice.
Surprisingly, it still isn't that easy for a predator to chase game in the woods, especially now with warm temperatures and a melting wind. The snow is extremely soft and I should think the advantage would still go to the game in the deep snow.
But if an animal was run for a long time through that deep snow, and then pushed out onto the ice after being exhausted, the advantage would suddenly go to the predator
, whether wolves, coyotes or a pack of dogs. The latter is unlikely simply because I haven't heard of any dogs running loose or in packs.
One odd coincidence. Just after I learned of the dead moose and hung up the phone I happened to look out the front window.
Walking across the lake to the small island was an adult moose looking either very tired or very dejected
. It was moving really, really slowly with its head hanging down. Just a different posture from what you normally see. I'm hoping that is not an indication that the moose
being run in the area to the point of exhaustion.
Actually, I just had a thought.
I wonder if that single moose that kept trying to hook up with the cow calf pair was actually the mother of the really small calf Andy saw along the Dean a while back.
He was quite surprised at how small the animal was and just suggested that if the carcass on the lake was small, then it might be possible the calf just couldn't make it through the winter, or it was hunted down. But the single moose was trying to hook up with the pair over a week ago, so the kill would have to be at least that old.
In any case, I'm deeply saddened by the loss of the moose. We can ill afford to lose even one but I think we all accept that game losses will be very high this year.
We saw a little bit of sun today, high cloud and actually got to see the mountains for a while today. Since Andy and his instructor were both tired of hitting the books and being cabin bound for the past week or so, and I was tired of the overcast days, we decided we all needed a break.
So we went snowmachining today
Mazy has ridden little since she was a child but she has ridden motorcycles and did very well, picking up the pace and showing good balance by this afternoon.
We took it really easy and just made it a trail ride today with nothing strenuous, covering only about 45 miles or less.
I guess you really can't count playing around practicing turns in Gus's Meadow or playing roller coaster on the banks along Charlotte Main and Hooch as actual miles in trail riding
. Since we didn't have a destination in mind, weren't trying to beat the weather to the top of Trumpeter and didn't have a big group of riders to answer to, we just kind of did as we pleased.
We all got to play big kid today
We started off on the right foot this morning with a coyote out on the Main Arm of Nimpo Lake that I circled a couple of times. I wanted to get a closer look at it but they sure can move! There was another coyote at the north end of the lake this evening that deked off the lake and into the woods when I came on it. It was a little bigger than the one I saw this morning and it looked like it had been tracking a rabbit.
Surprisingly, I saw moose tracks going up Charlotte Main on old snowmobile tracks so I guess not all of them have been driven out of the higher elevations
. I know there's a big bull that hangs around up there so maybe he finds the deep snow of little consequence and preferable to the company of people.
There's a good hard crust not far beneath the top layer of fluffy white. Conditions are perfect for an amateur because you can go pretty much anywhere you want and mistakes won't cost you a bad stuck. But you could break through the crust if you really worked at it, and then the snow is bottomless!
Andy put his machine over a couple of times doing turns down in Gus's Meadow and once the track breaks through the drifts or crust formed during that melt a few weeks back, you can get a machine stuck.
We finally got to try out a device we purchased last year on the advice of our friends from Quesnel.
You can hook one end on the ski or front bumper and the other has a handle with a whole lot of stretch in between. Both Andy and I were practicing leaning on it just to see what it would do in terms of moving a heavy sled out of stuck. Seems to work like a hot darn but we'll probably get a refresher course from Bill in March on how to properly use the thing. I can definitely see the value of carrying such a device when there are only a couple of people riding together and you don't have the combined manpower of a big group to help you get a sled out of a bad spot.
Even then, this little thingy majiggy gives you a lot better purchase and leverage from a much better position than bent double over a ski trying to pull on it with your hands and scramble out of the way when the machine does start to move
All in all, it was a nice refreshing start to a week where our weather is predicted to be just as grim as it has been for the past week. Just to show you how bad it's been take a look at the picture up on the top right. That isn't snow on the branches of those trees. That's layer after layer of frost built up from clouds rolling in low over the mountains day after day and full of moisture.
At least we got some fresh air today, (well maybe a lot of gas and oil fumes as well) and a viewpoint different from that of looking out a window all day yearning to be outside.
Did you know that moose are actually fairly new immigrants to the Chilcotin?
Other than fur bearing animals, Mule deer and caribou were the only large game west of the Fraser River known to the early explorers, traders and Indians
, and were heavily relied on for food. It's said that large herds of elk were present in the country long before the memory of the oldest Indians but legends have it that the herds disappeared after a particularly harsh winter. Their antlers can still be found buried and preserved in swamps and marshes. I always wondered about that because while hunting a meadow at the base of the Itcha Mountains years ago I found what I was certain were very old, very decayed, half buried elk antlers. They certainly weren't caribou.
According to one of the books written on the history of the Chilcotin:
"An Indian named Moleese killed a moose at Indian Meadow in the fall of 1916. He didn't know what this huge beast was but figured it might be good to eat. Afraid to taste the meat, he cut out the tongue and lips and galloped off to his tribe to talk to his friends. The rest of the tribe was excited, too, and a dozen men accompanied him with pack horses back to the kill to bring in the meat, head and horns. But no one knew what the big mowich was, not even the Old One who had lived for over a hundred years."
Frederick Metheun Becher was born in India in 1862. His father was a colonel in the Britsh Army and was transferred from India to Northern Ireland where Fred grew up and was educated. As a young man, Fred came to Canada and in 1880 joined the Hudson's Bay Company where he served as a trader at Fort St. John, hundreds of miles north and east of the Chilcotin. Later he moved down onto the Fraser and got a job packing freight to Hanceville (Lee's Corner). Eventually he set up a trading post and built the first big hotel with a saloon at Riske Creek and ran the Post Office there for better than 30 years.
(The rolling grasslands at Riske Creek are still called Becher's Prairie and the dam system he built is on the left along Highway 20 coming west through the hairpin corners just before Riske Creek.)
The reason I give some background on Becher is because it's just an example of the varied and colorful characters that moved into and settled the wild, Chilcotin country.
It was Fred Becher that identified the animal that Moleese had killed when the hide and horns were brought to him at the trading post
. He was the only person in the area familiar with the ungulate because of his trading background with the Hudson Bay Company.
The first moose killed in the Big Creek country was shot by two cowboys in 1927. By 1930, apparently there were moose everywhere and the country became overrun with them.
It's said though, that many died off during the hard winters in the 1950's
. In Rich Hobson's books about he and Pan Phillips' adventures when he and Pan first ride over the mountains from Anahim Lake into the Blackwater looking for ranchland,
he describes seeing huge herds of moose on the miles of meadows that stretch over that country
. I'm not sure everyone believed him because it's said Rich and Pan were prone to exaggeration, but legend seems to back them up.
When I first came into this country in the late 1980's there were moose everywhere!
The mill had moved in and opened up logging roads into previously inaccessible areas. Guys that worked at the sawmill up at Morrison Meadows packed rifles in their trucks and
numerous moose came back down in the back of pickups or on top of a load of logs in the fall
. Word got out and hunters from Vancouver and the Okanagan streamed into the country every hunting season where it became a wholesale slaughter. It got so bad that the RCMP set up check points and in the one day alone that they stopped 72 vehicles on the back roads, they found that only two were local.
One pickup loaded with hunters from Kelowna even had a chair in the box on which a hunter was comfortably perched with his rifle as they hunted the logging roads
. Natives and locals alike became extremely worried about the depletion of the moose herds and finally, albeit way too late, the area went into limited hunting status.
It has taken years for our moose populations to rebuild somewhat, although I don't think they will ever again be what they were. We are seeing more and more deer move into the area, not just Mule deer but the odd Whitetail. Is that because Mother Nature hates a vaccuum or the natural progression of things?
There has to be a reason moose moved into the country only a century ago
Did predators drive them down from the north? Several consecutive winters with extremely deep snow? Or did their food source change?
Weather change has a significant impact on the movement of species and perhaps there is a reason deer populations in the area are on the rise, while moose populations decline.
This winter we are seeing moose grouped together in larger numbers than ever before
but I think that can be attributed to moose being driven out of the higher elevations by deep snow and is
indicative of increased numbers.
Several massive forest fires in the Chilcotin in 2004 and 2005 pushed animals into areas that hadn't been burned over and we saw an increase in the numbers of black bear, grizzly, deer and moose seen in our region.
I suspect that the Mountain Beetle infestion will change the makeup of our region even more but I don't know how that will affect game natural to this area
. Will it eventually result in more meadows, standing water, aspen stands or rolling grasslands? Any change to the flora is going to result in a change in the fauna. It will be interesting to see by how much.
Today is yet another grim, grim day, as was yesterday
. I had to force myself to ski on the lake yesterday. It just seems like work rather than fun when there is no sun and the mountains are cloaked in low, grey cloud. It snowed a bit yesterday and is snowing a little today, so I guess we're at least getting some benefit from those clouds.
According to the weatherman it isn't going to improve anytime soon
. That means my mood isn't going to either. Talk about winter blahs!
Grumpy Bears
And no, I don't mean the four legged kind. Several low, cloudy days in a row with no sun have resulted in area residents being somewhat grumpy, myself included. At least today high cloud is allowing a glimmer of sun through and has resulted in an improved mood for all.
One of the keen benefits of living in the Chilcotin in winter is the normally clear, sunny days
. The sullen overcast of this past week is unusual in February, a month that is normally one of the best winter months for getting outside and picking up a little sun. Even though often cold, clear skies are usually the order of the day. Cold, dreary overcast and snow flurries
are not
. As one that suffers from lack of sun, I can't imagine living in a place like Vancouver, the Okanagan or even Prince George, where overcast for weeks and months on end is the norm in winter. The trade off is the temperature, I guess.
But I'll take the cold as long as I can see that yellow orb in the sky
I traded grumpiness for some wings and a few beer with Andy's instructor over at
The Dean on Nimpo
last night, which helped. The food, company and atmosphere make Pilot's a great pick me up for the winter blues and I highly recommend it to summer
winter visitors.
It looks like that cow moose and calf have allowed the single to hook up with their little group, albeit grudgingly
. Andy saw all three running across Nimpo Lake yesterday and a friend down at the south end of the lake saw the three together as well. The group of four are still around as is the big single bull that hangs out down by the gun range.
The same friend down on the south end thought she saw two wolves crossing the lake the other day
. She said they were large enough and dark enough to be wolves but once they started howling in the woods they sounded more like coyotes so it's hard to say. It's mating season so they could be either/or.
I went out for a ski this afternoon and finally made it to Dot Island. Only a six mile round trip
but not made easy by the complete destruction of my ski track in places, this time not by snowmobilers but animals
. Apparently both the moose and coyotes decided this was Highway 101 and especially the coyotes must have found the track a perfect fit. Where the moose followed it or crossed it periodically, the pack of coyotes followed it for a good mile or so. The only thing saving the track was the fresh snow we had two days ago that served to fill in the tracks a bit under my skis.
I estimated somewhere between four and eight in the pack and it turned out it was just ahead of me
. When I rounded the corner on the last leg to Dot Island, with a low peninsula between me and the shore across the bay, the pack must have spotted me. They set up quite a yippy ruckus, totally freaked the bigger dog out (he's a bit of a chicken liver), and judging by the noise there were quite a number of them.
The coyotes quieted down once I rounded the corner into the bay
and though I never saw them, I assume they were just inside the tree line across the little bay, because the dogs kept a sharp eye on the shoreline the whole time I was there. They threw cautious glances down our back trail quite a while after we left and I got the impression that River wasn't the least bit happy with the whole episode. I suspect from his attitude that he's had a run in with them before.
The arrival of coyotes in those numbers explains why that single moose was so desperate to hook up with another group
. Whether they have any hope of taking one down or not, coyotes in those numbers will probably be putting the moose on the move, and I suppose it's possible that they may target the calf although probably without any success. That's more likely to be the job of wolves with coyotes scavenging the leftovers. Hopefully, if the scat and tracks I've seen indicate wolf, it's only one or two at most, and our moose and caribou can winter in peace.
Still lots of fresh moose tracks on the other side of the lake so nothing has moved them out yet!
In any case, a little sunshine, a long ski run and lots of tracks to make things interesting does a great deal to raise the spirit.
As you have probably noticed, I've been a little slow starting a new week. If you would like to see all the moose pictures or read the articles for last week, you'll find them at
February, Week One
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Sometimes the life of a princess doesn't seem so dreamy after all. One of the drawbacks? Having the world analyze every move you make, every spoonful you put into your mouth, for hidden clues.
You think I'm exaggerating? Kate Middleton is making headlines for declining to take a bite of "peanut paste" (a famine-fighting staple that may or may not be the same as peanut butter) during a visit to a United Nations aid station in Copenhagen earlier this week. Prince William and royal hosts, the Danish Crown Prince and his wife, happily sampled the stuff.
Because peanuts are considered by some (though not all) medical experts to be a no-no during pregnancy, Kate's refusal to dig in has prompted -- you guessed it -- speculation that she's totally got a bun in the oven.
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Oh, for Pete's sake. Can't a girl pass up a bite of peanut butter (or paste or whatever) without everyone concluding that she's pregnant? And can't we cut these kids a break? They just got married, for goodness' sake. Stop cranking up the baby pressure already. How do we know they're not trying to get pregnant, in which case all the speculation is probably particularly unwelcome?
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post6128795258223613862..comments2020-06-15T15:22:52.628-04:00Comments on Bits of My Own: The PillowEricahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post-47811506565727403012016-02-26T11:30:27.154-05:002016-02-26T11:30:27.154-05:00Sorry the pillow gave you such a fuss, but the bac...Sorry the pillow gave you such a fuss, but the back doesn't look that terrible. Do you have an evenfeed foot? They're fussy to work with but I've found they do help with thick, slickish fabric. Love, love, love the socks - I am going to knit a pair someday - honestly, I've collected enough yarn to knit a pair for everyone in my office and their little dogs too! I looked at the Boothy heart - thought it would be cute for my niece's wedding sampler, but found something else.Susanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post-49663290818752372622016-02-21T10:21:09.961-05:002016-02-21T10:21:09.961-05:00Sorry the pillow was so frustrating. I couldn'...Sorry the pillow was so frustrating. I couldn't even imagine trying to make it. Love your socks! Love that Bothy Threads design too. Is it cross stitch??Margarethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post-20995100581747412382016-02-21T03:49:53.411-05:002016-02-21T03:49:53.411-05:00Oh dear so sorry about the pillow ..but it's l...Oh dear so sorry about the pillow ..but it's looking so lovely from the front
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Big hugs xcuckihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post-49380776988375530262016-02-20T20:01:24.545-05:002016-02-20T20:01:24.545-05:00So sorry about the pillow,it does look very pretty...So sorry about the pillow,it does look very pretty from the front. I would just live with it for a bit. Maybe it will bother you less. The heart design is lovely.Barbhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547359167720074648.post-27454873924261144242016-02-20T14:28:36.013-05:002016-02-20T14:28:36.013-05:00Sorry to hear the pillow gave you a lot of trouble...Sorry to hear the pillow gave you a lot of trouble, it does look fine from the front though. Certainly better than anything I could do!
The Bothy Heart is lovely too. Definitely a good idea backstitching as you go, it seems to be the majority of the design! I am finding 28 count very large for most things these days, except over one stitching. For over two then 32 or 36 is my preferred fabric.Jo who can't think of a clever nicknamehttps://email@example.com


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So you're in NYC looking for things to do with the fam that gets you out of the heat? Well, Bowlero Corp., the world leader in bowling entertainment with over 300 centers across the nation, is now offering its Summer Games Passes for its fifth year in a row. With each purchase of a Summer Pass, you can bowl up to three games every day throughout summer. The Summer Pass is perfect for everyone, and it's a fun way to beat the heat – without spending your especially hot summer days in your hotel.
Bowlers of all ages can purchase a Summer Games Pass with prices ranging from $9.95 to $38.95 for kids and $27.95 to $53.95 for adults 16 and older. Passes are valid now through September 2nd—offering more than 100 days of bowling! Specific pricing varies by center, and passes are currently available for purchase online or at your local Bowlero center.


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Lalaloopsy Mini Doll, Choco Whirl-n-swirl
Mini Doll, Choco Whirl-n-swirl , a great product from Lalaloopsy happens to be adorable. The feature characteristics are package is re-usable and doll has movable arms, legs and head. It's 3.25" Height x 2.25" Length x 1" Width and has got a weight of 0.18 lbs. 520450 is the model number for this item. The doll comes with a warranty of 90 day warranty against defects supplied by the manufacturer. To see the low price I ran across, visit the market button.
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Product FeaturesEvery character is differentMovable arms, legs and headAdorable petPackage is really a reusable houseProduct Measures: 2. 25"Recommended Ages: 4 years and up 25"x 1"x 3.
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- Package is re-usable
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Ideas That Will Help You Enjoy Your Trip
There is little that is more exciting that going on a trip. No matter where your travels may take you, it is imperative that you have some basic knowledge in hand. Traveling will be easier with these tips.
Once you know where you are going, put in some time to learn your destination. Buy a map of the area in which you are visiting, learn about the environment, and find tourist attractions. The more you know about the environment, the easier it will be to get around when you are there.
If traveling by air, it is important to think ahead of time. The trip to the airport requires that you give ample time to deal with traffic, rush hour conditions and other unexpected delays. Always have your suitcase packed the night before your flight. Make the necessary preparations prior to flying. Nothing is worse than missing your flight.
To keep your travel arrangements within your budget, make them as far in advance as possible. Regardless of what your vacation costs, you usually get a better price if you pay early. Your travel budget can stretch further if you keep last-minute expenditures to a minimum.
When deciding on a camera to take on your trip, consider your needs. If you are going on an outdoor trip, for instance, a camera with a rechargeable battery probably won't work for you. You want a camera you can turn off and on quickly and that focuses fast.
If you go traveling abroad, be aware of your surroundings, especially when taking taxis. You should ensure that you are using a legitimate taxi service. Any idiots can slap a "taxi" sign onto their car and you never know who they might be or where they might end up taking you.
Traveling away from home can often result in you carrying along too many belongings. To ensure that you don't take too many things, only take the toiletries that you need. Make a list of toiletries that you generally use throughout your day and can't live without. Pack what you know you need to get through the trip.
Get your things organized quickly. Do not waste time scouring you home for all of the items you need. Buy a bin that can hold all of your travel items. A container that can be hidden under the bed is great since it can be hidden and retrieved quickly when you need the items.
Be sure to put identification information inside your luggage in addition to the normal luggage tag. Luggage tags are often ripped off during travel. Make sure that your identifications are on your bag so that you do not lose it.
Find social websites that talk about travel often. Getting connected with fellow travelers is a great way to get ready for your trips. You'll find out about attractions you might not otherwise have known about.
What you thought would be a dream vacation can quickly turn into a nightmare if not planned for properly. Read the reviews on the web from experienced travelers. These reviews can help you avoid bad hotels and unsafe parts of town.
Now you have wonderful tips to make traveling fun. Just be sure you take your camera!


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Thomas A. Hunter owned the factory located in the neighborhood (the former Cotton Mill Square on the corner of Merritt Drive and Spring Garden Street). He wanted the best for the children whose parents worked in the mill and saw that a small school was built for them. Hunter Elementary School, then Pomona Mills School, opened for students in 1929 in the neighborhood that was called Pomona. It was a county school in those days but conveniently accessible by the trolley. Because of his deep concern for the school, Mr. Hunter was allowed to select the first principal, Mrs. Robert A. (Mabel) Merritt. who became a teaching principal for the school. When the old wooden school was replaced with an updated brick building, Mrs. Merritt requested of the Greensboro City Board of Education that the school's name be changed to Thomas A. Hunter School to honor the late Mr. Hunter.
Mrs. Merritt served as the principal from 1918-1950, in many cases seeing to her student's needs by reaching out to her church, West Market United Methodist, to provide clothes during the Depression. Upon her retirement in 1950, the city of Greensboro renamed the road where Hunter Elementary is located to Merritt Drive. "I want the children around here to have a school as good as any city school. I want them to have good books to study and good books to read for special enjoyment." said Mrs. Merritt.
Hunter Elementary has gone through many changes and improvements during the past 78 years, but Mrs. Merritt's philosophy still holds true. We do want our children to have a school as good as every other school and we do want our children to have good books for study and enjoyment. However, we want and expect much, much more of and for our students.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6554327255597988141.post1910181645843568624..comments2020-06-12T10:40:00.734-05:00Comments on Nerdy April: #happydiabeticchallenge - DiagnosisNerdy Aprilhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6554327255597988141.post-72874666302943870182019-05-07T13:35:58.547-05:002019-05-07T13:35:58.547-05:00Wow, wow, wow!!! This is an amazing story! Sometim...Wow, wow, wow!!! This is an amazing story! Sometimes we look back on the past and say "thank goodness we didn't die because we didn't use seatbelts" but this, THIS, is something else! So glad you made it through that Disney vacation!!Nerdy Aprilhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6554327255597988141.post-25602849799318292332019-05-02T19:01:41.893-05:002019-05-02T19:01:41.893-05:00Everybody knows that the cranberry juice is no goo...Everybody knows that the cranberry juice is no good against diabetes. We all know that takes the ink form three jelly fish, the rust of 14 nails, grass clippings,maple tree bark and cumin (lots and lots of cumin).

My mom was T1 so we knew almost instantly what the issue was and what had to be done. We also knew we were at Disney world and my mom and dad had saved for the trip. So we decided to stay. Mom being my mom decided that a few days would not matter much and lots of pancakes, ice cream and a few times to throw up was a good way to manage diabetes for two weeks.

As she said, hey you wont die and lets face it you may never come to FL again. LOL. I laugh about the cranberry juice or the stay tow weeks in FL based on how we do things today. But as my mom used to say, hey a few weeks wont matter and you probably wont die. :) Rick Phillipshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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I'm not going to lie; I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Halo franchise. When I was in grad school I would treat my brain to a study reprieve with one of the Halo novels. For the better part of a year my gaming group spent a few hours each Wednesday night playing Halo Reach. While Microsoft's "everything that is old is new again" approach to reselling Halo and Halo 2 as HD remakes left a foul taste in my mouth, it wasn't enough to sour me on the world of the Master Chief. And then I watched the first episode of 343 Industries' pre-Halo 4 promotional web series, Forward Unto Dawn. Rarely has something, which on a conceptual level I know I should enjoy, moved me to disgust so quickly.
Believe it or not, the fundamental problem in Halo's mythology has nothing to do with a slightly silly narrative of aliens fighting against humans. Thanks to Forward Unto Dawn, the now inescapable problem connects to the less than noble origins of the game's hero. The United Nations Space Command's "Spartan II" project was designed to create a Special Forces soldier who would be capable of covert operations against the political dissidents opposed to the UNSC's dominion over colonized space. Had the Covenant, an alliance of alien races intent on evil for the sake of evil, not invaded UNSC space, the Chief would have earned his stripes crushing rebellions in the name of his hegemonic empire. Rather than skirting around this issue, Forward Unto Dawn celebrates it.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more moral ambiguity tossed into the Halo universe. Yet Forward Unto Dawn goes about it in the exact wrong way. Set at an elite UNSC military academy, the series follows a cadet squad and their resident malcontent Thomas Lasky (Tom Green – no not that Tom Green). Unlike most other Cadets, who believe the 'Innies (short hand for Insurrectionist) are blood thirsty murderers intent on ruining civilization, Lasky dares to ask if there isn't a smarter way to prosecute a war against what he sees as "a bunch of overly taxed farmers."
I might be inclined to buy into the narrative Forward Unto Dawn is putting out there were it not for the fact that it presumes to have teenagers espousing tactical dogma. Moreover, the dialogue powering Lasky's third-way philosophy and the other cadets' devotion to policy sounds like it's drawn from the big book of war movie clichés. If that wasn't bad enough, the acting is about as forced and unnatural as can be. There's no better example of this shameless scenery chewing than in Enisha Brewster as senior cadet April Orenski. I don't know if we should blame the writer, director, or actor for Orenski's laughably miserable attempt at channeling a gruff gunnery sergeant.
It's as if the writers sought to combine the worst elements of Dawson's Creek and Ender's Game within the Halo mythos. Forward unto angst filled child soldiers revelling in their collective hubris. Clearly nobody informed Hastati Squad that within the Roman Legion, the Hastati were inexperienced and poorly equipped canon fodder; would that these characters die as quickly as their namesakes, I would be a happy critic.
Despite this, Forward Unto Dawn's crucial failure remains the shameless subversion of the game's "the UNSC are the good guys" conceit. Watching the unthinking cadet corps, who are a stone's throw away from jack boots and Roman salutes, in action has made me finally accept the fact that I've spent countless hours in the service of an agency akin to the Galactic Empire of Star Wars, the Alliance of Firefly, or the Terran Federation of Blake's 7.
Moreover, the episode's emphasis on a cadre of cadets makes me think that 343i and Microsoft are abandoning the 20 and 30-something demographic that made Halo a pop-culture touchstone in favour of younger gamers. Granted it has only been one episode, but the "next time on Forward Unto Dawn" trailer strongly implies this will be a series for the kiddies. I still hold out some hope on the plot returning to old Lasky as he finds the Chief and Cortana drifting through space. Realistically, I'll bet old Lasky pulls the Chief out of cryo as an epilogue to the series and a "hey kids, go buy Halo 4 to find out what happens next" gimmick.
As a web series, Forward Unto Dawn is tedious and derivative. I can think of at least half a dozen other web productions more worthy of audience attention. As a promotional piece for Halo 4, Forward Unto Dawn is just downright embarrassing. Any two minute segment from Halo 3's "Believe in a Hero" or "Museum of Humanity" ad campaign would upstage all twenty minutes of Forward Unto Dawn's maudlin claptrap. Were it possible, I would teabag this web series like a fallen foe in a Halo death match.


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8 Lytton Street Studio Show
If you are looking for great artworks at amazing prices then you shouldn't miss the 8 Lytton Street Studio Show taking place this weekend. The unique open studio setup offers a more intimate alternative to the conventional way of viewing and buying art. Artists Frank van Reenen, Conrad Botes, Tracy Payne, Gabrielle Raff, Sarah Pratt, Andrew Lovell, Jo O'Connor, Leeanne Boulter and Larita Engelbrecht will sell their work from their studio in Observatory. You will also have the rare opportunity to meet the artists themselves and experience their workspace. The exhibition is part of the third annual Art Walk, which includes sixteen participating studios and eighty artists' works on display. The studios are spread across Observatory, Salt River and Woodstock. Various food trucks will also be parked along the route to keep your taste buds happy. The 8 Lytton Street Studio Show and Art Walk takes place from 6pm until 9pm on 6 December 2013 and from 10am until 4pm on 7 December 2013. For more information, visit artwalk.co.za. Text Astrid Sanders


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Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates' powerful memoir about race is among six books on President Barack Obama's summer reading list, reports The Hill.
Although Coates has been a frequent critic of the president's efforts to address racial inequality, Obama will read Between the World and Me, a memoir about being black in America, during his 16-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard, the report notes.
The other five books on Obama's list, according to The Hill, are a mélange of fiction and nonfiction: All That Is, by James Salter; All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr; The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert; The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri; and Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow.
Besides catching up on his reading, the president has played several rounds of golf and enjoyed meals with the first lady, friends and advisers, the report says.
The president is due to return to Washington Aug. 23.
What's on your summer reading list? Let us know in comments.
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Why Aston Martin's Mid-Engined Vanquish Is The Car The Name Deserves
We spoke to Aston Martin's David J King to understand what's behind the company's mid-engined revolution, and why the Vanquish name is coming back
Aston Martin is not content with simply replacing its ageing line-up with fresh, shiny new cars. No: to achieve true success while future-proofing the company, a wholesale reinvention is in order.
"It all goes back to our second century plan," Aston Martin's VP and Chief Special Operations Officer David J King tells me. Said plan involves "growing our product range and having a foothold in every element of the luxury car space, not just relying on beautiful looking front-engined GT cars because that leaves us vulnerable to changes in trend," he explains.
We've seen elements of this already - we've known about the company's DBX SUV plans for a while now, and it's been a year since Lagonda was spun off as a separate entity to eventually build hyper-luxurious electric vehicles. The most exciting bit has involved the Valkyrie (below) and the newly revealed AM-RB 003 (above), effectively King's babies, but arguably much more significant is what these two hypercars lead to - a proper, series production mid-engined supercar.
No caps to the production number, no seven-figure price tag - this car is all about competing with the likes of the McLaren 720S and the new Ferrari F8 Tributo, plus whatever's likely to come next - the market could change drastically by the time the car arrives in 2022. It is, however, already here in concept form as the Vanquish Vision concept. It may only be a model at this stage, and it may be sharing its Geneva Motor Show with a more complete AM-RB 003 concept plus the first Valkyrie prototype, but it has plenty of presence in the metal.
It's important that the three are together here, too. Valkyrie wasn't about testing the waters - it was always going to be the start of a whole new mid-engined sports car lineage at Aston Martin. "We knew at the time that would be a series of other cars coming from Valkyrie - the cascade of the bloodline through another two cars was planned," King says.
This is a "top-down" approach that will see tech trickling down from the Valkyrie through the 003 to the Vanquish. Valkyrie has ultimate engine bragging rights with its Cosworth-built N/A V12 that revs to 11,100rpm, but the other two are set to use a powerplant which has much bigger ramifications for Aston Martin as a whole: an all-new V6 designed and built by Gaydon itself.
It's Aston's first engine in decades, set to be built somewhere in the UK at a brand new facility. King remains coy on technical details, although he does confirm that the engine in both cars will feature some level of hybridisation. 003 will inevitably have a greater level of electrical power, and we wouldn't be surprised to see involvement from Rimac, with the Croatian firm already supplying batteries for the Valkyrie's F1 Kers-style hybrid system.
The decision to go for a V6 "comes from the culmination of the power, the weight, the package, and the emission requirements for the long term," King explains. It's not enough being powerful, the Vanquish will have some extremely tight emissions regulations to tackle. Work on the unit is well underway - Aston Martin fired a prototype up on the bench for the first time very recently.
When the production Vanquish arrives, it should hopefully stay true to the Vision. "Hopefully our track record says that when we show a concept car it ends up looking quite like the production car," King says, using the example of the Valkyrie, with the concept and production versions indeed being very similar aesthetically. "Every surface will change a little bit as we learn more about the car, but I expect it will come pretty true to the shapes and styles you see here."
But what about the name? Will it stay? The official line is it's "likely," but King seems especially keen for it to return. "The first time we used Vanquish was a pretty special car - a car that went on to be one of our icons of the last 15-20 years. I'm not sure we did it justice the second time we used the Vanquish name," he says. "This is about re-establishing Vanquish as sitting at the top of our mainstream production car range.
"It's such a cool name. We've got to keep using it, and it feels like the right car to use it on."


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Or we present the latest developments that define what we do.
We have the pleasure to show you our design works of the last months and we wanted to title this catalog "In Wonderland" because it sums up very well the world of fantasy and color that inspires and nourishes us. Matrioskas in the court of Felipe the Second, families of robots, fairy castles, cities and trips in the form of furniture, letters that are tables and furniture that are great secrets. And much more ... A complete series of delicious modules that, in the form of drawers and doors, opens a world of decorative possibilities from the simplest to the most complicated. We like the mixture, the textures, the volumes, the color, the baroque, the unexpected and what has a soul of its own. We dream of what does not exist and doing something different, for the different people.
This catalog is the extension of the previous one and the sum of both defines very well who we are and where we want to go. And none of this would be possible without the group of people who work alongside us and who contribute with their dedication and commitment to the client's demands and our own.
Lola glamour is a Spanish company dedicated to artisanal furniture manufacture since 1995. This business was born in tradition, as Almazán region (Soria) is bond to furniture manufacture, and has always counted on experienced, professional artisans who bet on a new, innovative company with original design concepts.
Lola Glamour is currently run by siblings Félix and Désirée, who have designed all the pieces belonging to their brand. Their career is inherently bond to the company's path since its establishment, 24 years ago. This fact grants them access to valuable information about the market and its agents. They have a very clear vision of what they want to accomplish and how they want to do it.
The furniture finishes by Lola Glamor
The finishing process of the Lola glamor furniture is long, complex and strictly handmade. The result is an obvious difference, which is seen and touched, and which lasts over time. Each person who participates in this process contributes to the aesthetic sense of the furniture and successively contributes part of their identity
We perform a process of aging of the surfaces in order to bring more personality to the product.
For the natural tones in the furniture, after aging, a thorough sanding process is carried out, application of dyes and backgrounds, and a new sanding resulting in the body and smoothness necessary for the patina and equalized works. In this case you can always see the grain of the wood used.
For lacquers, after the background sanding, the lacquer of the desired color is applied and the patinas are worked on. Each applied product is born of a certain mixture from which a color or effect results.
The finishing varnish seals and protects the furniture. Each type offers a certain level of GLOSS, providing different brightness scales. Previously the furniture has been brushed to enhance its craft essence.
We continuously experiment with new techniques and tones. The finishes of Lola glamor are always evolving. In the same way, we can make all the changes that the client needs to adapt them to their specific projects.
Laca color Aguamarina
Laca color azul Prusia
Laca Gris Dorado
Laca color Índigo
Pátina de color negro
Laca color verde manzana
Laca color verde oliva
Laca color verde militar
Color Marfil sin pátina
Efecto Blanco Craquelado
Color Beige Patina
Color Marfil
Color Blanco alto brillo
Laca color perla
Laca color topo
Laca color café
Plata desconchada
Plata con patina
Laca color oro
Laca color rojo
Laca color rosa palo
Color Pardo
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At Give or Take we offer you the opportunity to donate your accumulated cashback to a charitable cause.If you do this we will not make a single deduction, and the gesture would be greatly appreciated. Should you decide to 'Give' we have provided a detailed list to help you choose a charity.
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by PATRICK COCKBURN
The United States has a failing that has an immense impact on the lives of Americans, but there is nothing they can do to change it. The fault is geological, not political or social, and would take hundreds of millions of years of drastic tectonic readjustment to put right.
The problem is that the country's mountain ranges run north-south. What the US needs is an east-west mountain chain, an American version of the Alps or the Hindu Kush. Hurricane Sandy, affected by the more than usually warm air in the western Atlantic, might not have been stopped by this. But, more generally, it is the absence of an east-west mountain range that exposes the US to the hazardous weather which does so much damage.
I have usually found that the most accurate information about any actual or potential disaster comes not from the media, but from insurance companies. These need, and are in a position to collect for their own purposes, detailed and immediate information about the extent of their risk before, during and after some cataclysm. The lament about the unfortunate lack of east-west mountains across the US comes not from some overimaginative geologist or climatologist, but from Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company. Just two weeks before Sandy it published a fascinating study called Severe Weather in North America, saying that the area was already being hit by extreme weather events, possibly because of global warming, and predicts that this trend will get worse.
"Nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America," says Munich Re, basing its conclusions on its unrivalled database on natural catastrophes. "The weather shows a nearly quintupled number of weather-related loss events in North America for the past three decades, compared with an increased factor of four in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, two in Europe and 1.5 in South America." It suggests that the most likely explanation for this is climate change leading to an increase in heatwaves, droughts, heavy precipitation and probably, in the long term, the intensity of tropical cyclones.
It is not that the American media does not copiously report natural disasters; if anything, it concentrates too much on them. Normal snowstorms receive the same high-decibel reportage as true cataclysms before they occur or, in some cases, do not occur. On calm days, reporters pound viewers with hysterical prophecies of some impending climatic disaster that often fails to materialise.
By repeatedly crying wolf, news channels complicate life for those in the path of a storm who really need to know what is happening. After Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, people in Louisiana were berated by politicians and opinion-formers for ignoring warnings and not getting out in time before the levees broke. Not mentioned was the fact that the storm victims who failed to flee had previously been repeatedly subjected to unfulfilled apocalyptic warnings. No wonder politicians become privately cynical about such exaggerations, disastrously wrong-footing themselves as heartless and incompetent when, as with Katrina, or Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992, the forewarnings turned out for once to be all too true.
This was never going to happen with Sandy since it was heading for New York, the world's greatest media centre. This is in sharp contrast to Andrew, which made landfall south of Miami but mostly destroyed the plywood homes in towns of migrant workers such as Homestead. The media discovered that such a place existed only when it was destroyed.
Even with real disasters such as Sandy, television gives a distorted picture because the cameras focus on the most smashed-up neighbourhoods and ignore everything else. The rhetoric of disaster is so overplayed for minor events that there is nothing left for real catastrophes such as the one that hit New York and New Jersey last week.
No modern city can function long without electricity. No power means that fresh water cannot be pumped and lavatories stop working. People often buy extra food and store it in their fridges and freezers. To people accustomed to continuous electricity supply this seems prudent, but when the electricity fails it turns out to be a very bad idea. I remember the stench hanging over Baghdad after the power stations were bombed in 1991, as people took meat out of their fridges and left it to rot beside the road. The binmen never came for it because they had run out of fuel.
Reliance on a continuous supply of electricity makes people acutely vulnerable. In New York, many people no longer have landlines. In the hotel I stayed in on the Bowery in southern Manhattan in September, there were no longer any phones in the rooms. But without electric power mobiles cannot be recharged.
As with Katrina, poor people in Brooklyn and elsewhere are being criticised for not taking refuge in allocated shelters. Anybody who has seen the US government operating in similar crises will understand their reservations. As in New York today, there is normally a hi-tech headquarters, but at ground level there is not a policeman or Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) representative to be seen.
Not much seems to have changed since Hurricane Andrew 20 years ago. At the time, I wandered around Homestead looking for 300 Fema officials who were said to be in the area. I eventually found two of them, both volunteers, who were working at a table helping Mexican farm labourers fill in a five-page form requesting aid. One of them said to me in frustration: "What we really need here is an armoured car full of money to give people."


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In any professional project it is necessary to outline the way in which we assess both failure and success. Selecting a series of metrics provides an easily quantifiable method to carry out this assessment. The advantages of this are obvious, a solid metric reduces the complexity of the task: set a bar; hit it or don't and react as decided.
The problems that arise come in two forms: vanity metrics and descriptive misattribution.
The first of these is fairly well documented on the web. A vanity metric is a measure which serves as little more than a demonstration that something is being measured, often to impress customers or boards, however they fail to portray any meaningful data or lead to action. A typical business example would be a start-up quoting "user base growth" as a percentage without context – 400% sounds great – is that 50 to 250? Perhaps just 2 to 8. An investor could not make a decision from the percentage alone: it is a vanity metric.
In InfoSec we've all heard the horror stories of the yearly information security staff training presentation. If a company were to take the number of names on their sign-in sheet against the number of staff in the company as a valuable metric of their information security it would be simply farcical. Neither could one go to the board and inform them of any real change in the security readiness of the company: the metric does not allow you to draw meaningful conclusions.
The second problem mentioned was 'descriptive misattribution' – when your metric doesn't mean what you think it means. This is less often a case of misleading sales tactics and more often an oversimplification of the subject matter when trying to perform a comprehensive analysis of a subject more subtle than anticipated.
Firstly, consider the situation in which you have just started in your senior information security role. Your company has a sound technical set-up but, as is all too common, lacks a proper approach to the human aspect of information security. You are tasked with bringing the company into the position where you can robustly confront the business threats of the 21st century. With this in mind you focus on information security awareness making sure staff are aware of good habits and the threats out there. You find a suitable educational platform – a web search will always reveal more than a few. After a few months you can safely say information security awareness has increased, tutorials have been watched, a few tests done and so on. You have some well measured metrics to hand.
Job done? Sadly not. This is something talked about more extensively by HutSix previously (see https://goo.gl/Z1aA3p). The key point? Awareness is not behavioural change. These measurements on awareness are not wrong; they are not even misleading. They have simply been misattributed as an indication of actual improvements to security. The point is subtle because whilst awareness is an aspect of good security, it is inappropriate to use it as your only metric regarding the human side of information security, since you cannot attest to your employees behaviour only their education.
Clearly any professional must tread carefully when considering metrics, and this is particularly true in the information security world. On the human front where quantifiables can seem tricky, we must stay focused on what it is we really want. We must be clear about how far our metrics go to representing the change we need.


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Long time soloist for Billy Graham, George Beverly Shea, died at 104 years of age (1909-2013).
Franklin Graham said of him, "Even though Bev was 10 years older than my father, he never acted his age. He was absolute fun to be with. Bev was one of the most gracious and unassuming men I have known. He was always encouraging and supportive, a man of deep faith and strong commitment to Jesus Christ."
As will be true for all of God's children, the time had come for him "to leave this world and go to the Father" (John 13:1). He is now experiencing the answer to the prayer of Jesus, "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world." (John 17:24).
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So after doing a little research, like we librarians like to do, I was able to find the book I mentioned yesterday. The book is entitled The End of Night by Paul Bogard and I highly recommend it. I've also included it on the green reading page.
FYI, I also found out he has a new book entitled The Ground Beneath Us. I'll let you know how that is as I just requested it this morning.
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Thank You, Ernie Harwell…
Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, May 8, 2010
When I was nine years-old we moved to Michigan from South Carolina. In South Carolina, folks followed football and stock car racing. Baseball was played, but it wasn't followed. The Atlanta Braves were the nearest major league team, but I don't recall ever hearing about them. We arrived in Michigan in April. Our next door neighbors were the Kidles, a husband and wife in their late 80s. Their house was one of the only styles in our subdivision that had a front porch designed for occupying. (Unlike our two-story colonial that had a small cement block designed only for barely avoiding impact when the screen door was opened.)
When the warm summer evenings arrived, the Kidles would set up a transistor radio on the porch and listen to the Tiger game. Eventually I started to drift over there, and I'd listen, too. Sometimes we'd talk, and sometimes they would tell stories, but mostly we'd sit quietly and enjoy the game. It's funny how there was such a rhythm to it. You could be mid-sentence and instinctively know Ernie Harwell or Paul Carey was going to say something important — you'd pause, listen to the action, maybe whoop up a Willie Horton homer or Micky Lolich strikeout — then continue without missing a beat. The Tiger broadcast was an integral part of a summer evening.
But you know what? To celebrate Ernie Harwell is not to look to the past — it's to look to the future. Of the many incredible things I read or heard about Ernie Harwell over the past couple weeks, none was greater than the short article Michael Rosenberg, from the Detroit Free Press, wrote in Sport Illustrated this week. It pointed out that, for the most part, Ernie disliked nostalgia. For him it was all about learning and embracing the new. This is beyond impressive for a person born in the Deep South in the early 1900s. And it explains a lot about why he was so universally loved by generations of Tiger fans. I'm already celebrating Ernie by nearly jumping out of my skin looking forward for this summer!


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Bradley Mosher joined the Huskers in 1890 after earning a scholarship at the FB position. At and None pounds, Mosher came to NU after playing previously at . He is from , .
Learn more about Nebraska's Class of 1890 or scroll down to see players similar to Mosher in Husker history.
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Summerhall, Edinburgh until July 13th
Four stars
Down in the basement, Glasgow-based American percussionist and international noise scene doyen has created a DIY bunker that turns the left-behind detritus of a former machine shop into the ultimate pop-cultural dungeon to hang out in. As with all temporary tenants, Welch has customised existing fixtures and fittings with his own stuff, so the result looks like a gonzo-styled Frankenstein's monster interior pieced precariously together like a junkyard anti-IKEA.
A things-to-make-and-do vibe bursts through a riot of old sofas, big TVs perched on flight cases showing footage of Welch beating out his rhythms on the streets of Hebron in Palestine as kids follow him a la Pied Piper. On another screen, more footage, of a woman dancing on the edge of a canyon, is off-set by a blob of Blue-Tack stuck to the screen.
Spray-can graffiti smears walls with horror comic style cartoons pinned on. A4 Xeroxes are framed in an ornate glass table-top. Display cases with broken chairs on top show off a cabinet chock-a-block with trinkets, gonks and ornamental tat. All that's missing is an electronic arm to try and collect your amusement arcade prize. A mess of lanyards each with a photo booth mugshot of Welch dangle in a clump from a wooden pole. Wine bottle corks link up through twigs to form some scientific atom-splitting mobile.
The words 'SURPRISE YOURSELF' emblazon one tucked-away corner opposite CCTV footage of of a noise-fest in a gallery space in Brooklyn, NY, circa 1999 that covers the whole of one wall. All of this was animated into life by way of A Dank Hangout for U.F.O. Enthusiasts, a one-off three-hour performance by key figures in Scotland's avant-noise underground. The likes of saxophonist Tina Krekkels, guitarist Adam Campbell and composer Daniel Padden carve up the air with assorted interventions. Alongside Usurper's Malcy Duff, dressed for the part in hard-hat and overalls they embrace the building site production line with sounds as improvised as its magnificently messed-up interior.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.—Frederick Douglass, 1852
Taking the Ell
Frederick Douglass learns the ABC's.
Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the ABC's. After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters. Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful as well as unsafe to teach a slave to read.
To use his own words, further, he said, "If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master—to do as he is told to do. Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," he said, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought. It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. It was just what I wanted, and I got it at a time when I least expected it. Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read. The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering. It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost confidence on the results which, he said, would flow from teaching me to read. What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn. In learning to read, I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition of my master as to the kindly aid of my mistress. I acknowledge the benefit of both.
The School of Athens (detail), by Raphael, c. 1509–1510. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct but had set her face against my being instructed by anyone else. It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tenderhearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another. In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tenderhearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness. The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me. She now commenced to practice her husband's precepts. She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated to her satisfaction that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this, however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.
Frederick Douglass
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in 1838, the author changed his surname from "Bailey" to "Douglass" to elude capture. In 1841 Douglass became an agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, giving eloquent speeches in the North; four years later he published his autobiography in part to quiet skeptics claiming that no ex-slave could be so articulate.


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No matter your hair length or type, a stylish bun will always ensure you a chic and sleek look. With a variety of options available to suit any occasion, this easy-to-achieve hairdo is the perfect do to take you from day to night in style. To help you find the best style for you, we've compiled this section of the most stylish bun hairstyles that you will want to try.
Half Up Half Down
Easy to style and incredibly chic, a half up half down style works well on all hair types. It's a particularly great option if your hair isn't long enough for a full pony.
High Bun
The high bun is a classic and chic way to keep your hair out of your face—and look elegant doing it. For an extra sleek and long-lasting style, first, work a little mouse into the roots of your hair. Then, comb your locks back away from your face and brush them into a ponytail, securing the style with a hair tie. Next, twirl the ponytail until it settles around the hair band then secure it with bobby pins.
Top Knot Bun
The top knot is a chic and sophisticated hairstyle suitable for every hair type. It's an easy way to keep the hair out of your face in style. All you need to create the top knot is a texturising spray, hair ties, bobby pins and hairspray. It's a particularly great option for messy second or third-day hair!
Low Bun
Low buns are the ultimate choice for girls after a hairstyle that's versatile. The chic and sleek do has the power to take you from the gym to a cocktail party in style. A low bun is simple enough to create at home but is just as stunning as a look that's fresh from the salon. If you want to take your hairstyle up a notch, try a braided low bun.
Knot Bun
To create this look, comb the hair back into a low ponytail and add extensions if needed. Divide the hair in half and tightly twist each section. Bring the left section up and over and switch it to your right hand. Then bring the original section from your right hand under and switch it to the left hand. Repeat until you can't make another full rotation. Secure with bobby pins.
Cornrows Braided into a Bun
Now here's a style perfect for all the cool, trendy girls out there. A cornrows braided bun is a great option for those who like to keep comfortable in style. And being such a long-lasting 'do, you won't have to worry about touching up your style throughout the day!
Messy Bun for Medium Hair
If you're ready to ditch the elegant updo for something a little more cool and carefree, then the messy bun is the way to go. The key to making this style work is to keep it simple. Once you find a messy bun routine that works for you, it is sure to be your go-to look for most days. For an even messier and looser style, leave a few sections of your hair hanging loose.
Curly Messy Bun
If you don't have time to style your curls, a quick and easy way to tame them is with a messy bun. The simple hairstyle can even be a suitable option for semi-formal occasions, particularly when paired with hair accessories. To create this striking style, start by flipping all of your hair forward. Next, put your hair up into a ponytail then wrap your hair around the base of it and secure it with a hair tie.
Buns for Short Hair
It can be tricky to find new ways to style short hair. But not to worry, as long as you have hair ties, dry shampoo and bobby pins, there are a variety of ways to wear your hair. On the days when you don't want to bring out your curling iron or straightener, a bun hairstyle is a great option.
Black Girl Bun
Styling your hair can be difficult since it's quite thick and frizzy. Luckily we have just the style for you! A bun is a cute way to tame your mane. Start with freshly washed hair. The key to making this 'do work is to hydrate your hair with coconut oil or other products. Next, using a wide tooth comb, remove any knots and tangles. Then, gather all your hair into a ponytail and tie it up into a bun.


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A short halter prom dress by Blush is our fashion choice for prom 2012. This short halter top dress features a sweetheart neckline. The dress has a beadwork design covering the waist at the front and back. The beadwork is carried up the halter straps. There is a subtle animal print lurking under the print overlay. This is a dare-to-be-different dress with lots of flair and fashion.Tags: beaded prom dress, fashion-choice, halter prom dress, prom 2012, prom dress, short prom dress