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Our services include detailed screening and assessment of concussions, including computerized neuropsychological testing and the treatment, evaluation, and follow-up for these disorders while incorporating additional computerized neuropsychological testing as needed. ANS also performs preseason testing for athletes. This test provides an individual baseline measurement for use in determining treatment progress if the athlete is subsequently injured later in the season.
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A concussion is a blow to the head or body that causes shaking of the brain, causing damage to the tissue of the brain. Common examples include an athlete's head hitting a stationary object, such as the ground in field sports (football, soccer, etc.), boards or ice in hockey, and the floor in basketball. A hard blow to the body that shakes the head can also cause a concussion. The head doesn't have to be hit directly.
An estimated ten percent of all athletes participating in contact sports suffer a concussion each season. Concussions occur when a blow to the head or neck interrupts brain function. The effects of these concussions vary between individuals, and many mild concussions often go undiagnosed and unreported. Most athletes recover from concussions completely and can return to play following an appropriate period of recovery. However, knowing when it is safe to return to the game is crucial to avoiding serious brain injuries. Unlike musculoskeletal injuries, athletes cannot play while experiencing the effects of a concussion.
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The Spine and Sports Concussion Center at ANS was designed to address the comprehensive needs of athletes who have sustained a concussion or other sports related neurological injuries to facilitate his or her recovery and a safe and confident return to play. The highly experienced and skilled medical and professional staff at ANS provides excellence in concussion management. Our team also treats other related disorders, providing diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall care of the athlete.
Symptoms of Concussions
After a blow to the head, an athlete often shows signs of a concussion. The signs that may indicate a serious head injury include loss of consciousness, seizure, slow response to questions, distraction, poor concentration, a vacant stare, nausea/vomiting, slurred speech, inappropriate playing behavior, poor coordination, and poor balance.
If an athlete exhibits symptoms such as headache, nausea, vomiting, confusion, ringing in the ears, dizziness, seeing stars or flashing lights, double vision, feeling dazed, and being unaware of events in a game, seek medical attention immediately. Symptoms such as trouble sleeping, or sleeping too much, depression, anxiety, irritability, and emotional outbursts can persist for the long term.
Because loss of consciousness occurs in less than 10 percent of athletes with concussion, this is not a reliable indication of a concussion.
Concussion Response and Treatment
If an athlete sustains a head injury and a concussion is a possibility, the athlete must be removed immediately from the game and monitored over several days. Athletes often feel much better within a few minutes of sitting out of a game. However, symptoms often do not manifest for several hours or even several days. Returning an athlete to the field after a concussive episode could result in additional hits that could significantly increase the injury and the recovery time. A simple one- to three-week recovery process could extend to a four- to six-month recovery process that involves missing school, sports, and social events.
If an athlete doesn't manifest symptoms of a concussion over several days, it is usually safe to return to sports after a proper medical evaluation. Young athletes must learn the signs and symptoms of concussions, and they must also be honest about reporting how they are feeling. This is the most important step to protect the ability of young athletes to continue playing the sports they enjoy.
Physicians perform tests to assess coordination and reflexes, which indicate the level of injury to the central nervous system. Physicians may also perform at CT scan or MRI to detect bleeding in the brain. Standard treatment of concussions involves rest to allow the brain to heal and to prevent additional injuries. A physician will perform examinations to determine when the athlete can return to activity.
Concussion Prevention
Preventing a sports-related concussion can involve wearing a helmet that fits properly with a snug chin strap secured at all times. Athletes must also be taught never to lead with the head. Keeping the head up enables athletes to see, prepare for, and avoid hits and collisions. Athletes may also build neck strength to avoid some head injuries.
Keeping children and teens healthy and safe is always the top priority at ANS. Whether you are a parent, youth sports coach, high school coach, school professional, or health care provider, Atlantic NeuroSurgical Specialists assist with recognizing, responding, and minimizing the risks of concussion or other serious brain injuries.


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This example is another recent fake of the type currently being sold wholesale from the warehouses of reproduction 'antique' suppliers. Commonly, items bearing the mark seen on this piece combine some type of metal mount (complete with chemically applied false patination on the surface, in order to appear old) with a porcelain component. In this case the porcelain section is comprised of a heavy base and a shallow dish decorated with pretty multi-colored flowers and gold trim. Add the facts that the metal is in the form of a couple of sweet-faced, grape draped putti and the porcelain base and dish sport an all-over crackled glaze (again to help suggest age) and to the eyes of a new collector this piece may very well seem to be what it is not - a valuable antique. Particularly since the somewhat impressive looking mark on its base includes a number that suggests a year date of '1895.'
Unfortunately for any who might buy this item as made in that year, the numbers present in that mark, which is sometimes referred to as a 'Wong Lee' mark, actually are just as fake as the item itself. They do not refer to the year this piece was made. If you were to buy another example of this item brand new from a wholesale supplier tomorrow (and you could, as they are still in stock) that example would also sport the same 'year' mark of 1895. Or, perhaps, 1896, although that number tends to appear more on items without metal mounts from the same manufacturer.
Should items with an all-over craze to the glaze be portrayed to you as very old European or English-made porcelain of high quality (as this piece is likely to be) just remember that for a time true porcelain was such a rarity in the Western world it was considered to be more precious than gold. Only the rich could afford to own items made of it. Characteristics that helped to make it so precious were its strength and resiliency. True porcelain is made at such high temperatures its body is vitrified to a glass-like consistency. The glaze actually fuses with the body at firing, becoming part of it. This means unless it is flawed in some way at manufacture true high quality porcelain will not exhibit glaze crazing. Most certainly a pattern of all over crazing like that generally seen mapped out over the entire surfaces of reproductions or fakes like the item in this listing is not indicative of very old European or English-made porcelain, no matter how old it is. This type of purposeful crazing effect should only be expected to be present on certain specific types of antique art pottery, like Japanese Satsuma, and never on fine antique porcelain.
This example measures approximately 12 inches long by 8 inches wide and is approximately 9 and 1/2 inches tall.


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The last two legislative sessions have concluded with periods of confusion, rancor and extra expense brought on by a record-setting number of last-minute gubernatorial vetoes, inflexible demands and a general lack of engagement by the Administration. This experience has confirmed for us that we need a governor with successful executive experience, a clear and steady vision, and the ability to work with colleagues to get there — and we see a candidate with these qualities.
Sen. Christopher Bray, D-New Haven, represents Addison County, Huntington and Buel's Gore and serves as chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee. He is the lead sponsor of S.260.
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MIDDLEBURY — School financing and the state's budget woes continued to dominate conversation at the Bridport Grange's legislative breakfast series, the most recent edition of which was held on Monday at the Middlebury American Legion headquarters.
Lawmakers have been told there is a $118 million revenue shortfall for the state budget that is to take effect July 1. The Legislature's money committees are considering cuts to the current budget draft, along with some possible fee and tax increases.
ADDISON COUNTY — Rep. David Sharpe doesn't give off the aura of a salesman. His elbow-patched blazers may echo Willy Loman, but the soft-spoken, veteran legislator isn't in the business of sweet-talking his way to a few bucks.
But however unnatural it may come to him, selling was exactly what Sharpe set out to do at town meetings in his district this week. It's not goods the Bristol Democrat is hawking, but an education bill that would drastically change the organization of Vermont's schools and alter how they are governed.
NEW HAVEN — Sen. Chris Bray had hoped Senate leadership would appoint him to the Natural Resources and Energy Committee this session. The sophomore senator is an avid outdoorsman and he believes the state's long history of good environmental stewardship should be perpetuated.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday gave its legislative delegation a brief but sharply worded wish list for the 2015 session: Give us a rotary at the intersection of Route 7 and Exchange Street, along with education finance reform.
The board conveyed that message to the four Democratic lawmakers taking part in the meeting: Sen. Christopher Bray of New Haven, Sen. Claire Ayer of Addison, Rep. Betty Nuovo of Middlebury, and Rep.-elect Amy Sheldon of Middlebury.
NEW HAVEN — As towns in Addison County field proposals for new solar power arrays, town officials and area legislators say they'd like to see communities have more influence over where projects can be sited, and how large they can be.
Just a quick note, somewhat delayed, to thank Sens. Ayer and Bray and Rep. Jewett for their comments to Gov. Shumlin on the proposed Phase 2 pipeline (also found in the "Community Forum" section of the Addison Independent on Thursday, Aug. 7). It is so appreciated when our elected officials actually represent the citizens. Your actions do not go unrecognized.
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ADDISON COUNTY — For months, landowners along the Addison-Rutland Natural Gas Project pipeline route have asked state regulators to provide them with legal help to negotiate easements with Vermont Gas Systems.
The Office of the Attorney General does not represent private citizens, and many landowners feel the Department of Public Service has not offered adequate legal support, leaving them with few resources to represent their best interests.
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont Gas Systems announced on Tuesday that it is employing a new tactic to secure land rights necessary to construct a natural gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury — the company will now provide independent mediators to help landowners negotiate with the company.
"We're going to be offering neutral mediation for those landowners who we have not been able to reach agreements with," company spokesman Steve Wark said.
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Hit-Boy has been dropping off new songs at a weekly clip since the top of the year. Last week, it was "TD Celebration" ft. Rich The Kid and Donnie Trumpet. This week, it's "Feels" feat. Ricky Anthony.
Hit-Boy says he started the song by laying down the keyboard parts -- a bouncier, inquisitive melody line over a mellow, low-end electric piano pad -- and took it from there. "Feels" will appear on Zoomin 2, which might be coming sooner than you think.
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Did you hear the headline on the news about the woman who was newly transplanted to North Carolina and went apeshit in the local Goodwill, throwing wicker chairs through the glass doors?
Well, there's only one reason you didn't hear about it. That same woman summoned the last bit of self control she had stored away after spending two weeks listening to people talk like this and like this.
Looking back on it now, I don't know what came over me. Sure, I understand why my blood pressure reached "fried food every night" level, but what possessed me to want a wicker set? What am I? Some kind of Southern Belle sitting in a satin, pink, poofy gown on my front porch? Do I have buckets of sweet tea sitting at the ready for the much anticipated time when a gentleman caller arrives?
Yes, I have a wrap around porch on my house. It's of majestic proportions. Feet upon feet of space dying to be embellished with wicker and rocking chairs. However, at heart I am a wrought iron kind of girl who found herself at Goodwill thinking "Wicker! I love wicker!" when I laid eyes on a 3 piece set.
All the love left my body about 2 minutes later when I asked the manager if he would assist me in carrying the loveseat out to my truck to see if it would fit before I paid for it.
"Ma'am...I am afraid I can't do that"
Turns out that Goodwill's policy of spreading Goodwill stops at the door. He informed me that I had 3 days to pick up the merchandise after I paid for it, so don't worry if it doesn't fit in the truck. Yes, of course! I see your reasoning! If this loveseat doesn't fit today, I can try again tomorrow! Golly, that'd be fun. I can taste the Heinz 57 sense of anticipation when I roll up in front of the brick building, 3 days in a row, only to leave minutes later, totally defeated when Surprise! The loveseat still doesn't fit!
Not one to give up without a fight, I don my mental boxing gloves and tell the man that today is the only day I have to pick up this set of wicker.
"Ma'am...(ohmygod this is such a long pause please speak!)..I can help you carry the items to your vehicle if you sign a release stating that I am not responsible if something happens to your items once they enter the parking lot."
I glance outside and see 2 elderly women with Blueblockers making their way across the lot and a young mom with way too many kids. 300 feet away two cars sit at a traffic signal.
"I'll take my chances, give me the form!"
"Welllll........Ma'aaaaaaammmmm...you are not allowed to sign the form until the merchandise is paid for"
Inside my head a tiny bell dings, signifying the beginning of another round of mental fancy footwork.
"Okay, so I have to stand in line, pay for the items, sign the release form and then you will help me carry the items out to my truck ( I can lift the two chairs just fine, but the loveseat is way too big for one person to lift) and if the loveseat doesn't fit at that point in time, I have to bring it back inside the store, get back in line and return the items?"
"No Ma'am"
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text: Part 17 of 27 See all › Issue 37: The Money Issue Next: My Venmo Romance Trending Most Read Related 1 1 Conservative and religious leaders hate Alabama's awful abortion law, too. by Eric Pfeiffer 2 2 This man shuts down the most popular anti-abortion stance with one simple question. by Penn Collins 3 3 Dad's 5-year-old daughter's hilarious answers to his questions have the internet screaming. by Jessie Dean Altman 4 4 New SAT scores take into account a student's family background. There's considerable backlash. by Heidi Lux 5 5 Mom calls out nurse who body-shamed her 13-year-old daughter during annual check-up. by May Wilkerson 6 6 After rumors of her death spread online, this distressingly-thin beauty blogger is finally getting help. by Tod Perry 7 7 A confused dude on Twitter tried to explain the female anatomy to a gynecologist. Who is also a woman. by Leo Shvedsky 8 8 28 Of Barack Obama's Greatest Achievements As President Of The United States by Tod Perry 9 9 Alanis Morissette And James Corden Sing An Updated Version of 'Ironic' by Tod Perry Issue 37 Innovation It's Time For The Creative Class To Grow Up by Richard Florida Share June 23, 2016 Share on Facebook Click me! Share on Twitter Click me! Copy Link It's been nearly 15 years since Richard Florida released The Rise of the Creative Class—and just as he predicted, knowledge workers have become proven drivers of economic and cultural progress. The biggest surprise, he says, is what's happening to the rest of the American workforce. After the Great Recession, the pendulum swung in favor of independent workers, the ones who figured out how to mix and match income. But even though we have the internet and work is now global, creative networks still gravitate to big cities. The first move you'll make—if you're young, ambitious, and hope to establish your career—might be to a creative hub or tech center like San Francisco, even if this means paying a lot for housing and getting roommates. But once you partner up or start a family, things get harder. The data shows a certain kind of suburb is becoming more attractive: one connected to a big city by transit and with a walkable downtown. Think of cities like Hudson, Hoboken, or Jersey City near the New York metropolitan area. College towns are also doing well. Ann Arbor, Boulder, Austin—they all offer character, heritage, and authenticity. Many more metro areas today meet a threshold of amenities that appeal to knowledge workers than even 15 or 20 years ago. That's what the rise of the creative class was all about: Telling smaller cities that if you make yourself a bit more interesting and open-minded—encourage artists to open galleries, zone for street-level cafés, create enough urban energy—talented people will say, "Oh, there's enough here for me." Members of the creative class, even the struggling artists or journalists among us, are doing pretty well. We're not exactly the one percent, but we're making a living. And if we can't afford to live in Manhattan, we can find what we're looking for in Montclair, New Jersey, some nice part of Los Angeles, or, by god, Detroit. It's the working people, the service class, who are falling further and further behind. To me, what's been most surprising over the last decade is the class divide. The rise of Trump. About 60 or 70 million Americans—45 to 50 percent of the workforce—are getting pushed out of cities, and I think they started to blame everyone in the snobby universe: the professor, the tax-collecting government bureaucrat, the gay people partying it up downtown, the young people who looked like they didn't have to work. The blue-collar workers just got angrier. We need a more inclusive society, a more diverse society, a better world for everyone. To be frank, I'm a middle-aged white man, and there are middle-aged white men who can't keep up skills-wise. They're getting laid off. When I left college in the late 1970s, there were no "cool" jobs. You went to work on Wall Street or in a corporate bureaucracy. I would have had to cut my hair, shave my beard, pull my earring out. Now, there's nonprofit work, there are NGOs, there are startups. Not only high-tech startups—civic and social center startups. Personally, I went into academia partly because I was intellectually curious, but also because it was the only profession where I felt like I could be myself. It's time for the creative class to grow up and stop thinking all you need to do to build a better community is make your neighborhood "so cool." We need a more inclusive society, a more diverse society, a better world for everyone. We can't do that just by following our passions and finding meaning in our work. Sooner or later, people will understand that you can build a bigger movement on the backs of the creative class—give the service workers a social safety net, build a coalition of knowledge workers and single moms and minority people who can find common ground. The fight for a $15 minimum wage in expensive cities may be a sign that we're going to get there. New social systems and political awareness take a lot of time. It took 100 years for the New Deal to come about after the Industrial Revolution. Lags between new economic systems and safety nets are what I call "Great Resets." I think it'll happen—the United States has always been resilient. In the short-term, though, it's going to be messy. 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Hashtag Basketball / Minnesota Timberwolves
The steal of the 2017 NBA Draft did not come in the form of a highly rated prospect sliding down the draft board. Nor did it come from a sleeper player that had been overlooked by most teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves pulled off a bit of a heist on Thursday evening, swiping Jimmy Butler from Chicago for well below market value.
The steal of the 2017 NBA Draft did not come in the form of a highly rated prospect sliding down the draft board. Nor did it come from a sleeper player that had been overlooked by most teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves pulled off a bit of a heist on Thursday evening, swiping Jimmy Butler from Chicago for well below market value, and before anyone else had even the slightest idea it was happening.
While most other teams in the league were trying to figure out the final destination of Paul George and monitoring Phil Jackson's kamikaze mentality of shopping Kristaps Porzingis, Butler somehow slipped through the cracks, and Minnesota struck accordingly. Butler was acquired by the Wolves, along with the 16th over pick, Creighton's Justin Patton, in exchange for Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn, and the seventh over pick Lauri Markkanen from Arizona. Several sources on draft night indicated that this was the best offer Chicago received.
Lauri Markkanen, is a quality young player who has drawn comparisons to Dirk Nowitzki. However, there is already a player much like that on the Bulls roster in Nikola Mirotic. The wildly athletic Zach LaVine is a former dunk champ and exciting player, but is coming off ACL surgery and at this point nobody a) can fully know how he will recover and b) know if he will return to the athleticism he possessed prior to the injury. On top on that, LaVine and Markkanen figure to be little more than role players for Chicago depending on how their roster takes shape now headed for a rebuild.
Dunn appears to be the centerpiece of the deal for Chicago. A year ago on draft night there were reports from ESPN's Mark Stein that the Timberwolves attempted to offer a similar deal for Butler. Minnesota selected Dunn out of Providence with the fifth overall pick last June, among reports that the Bulls were very interested in him after trading All-Star Derrick Rose to New York. The Timberwolves wanted Butler and the number 14 pick, Denzel Valentine in exchange for Dunn and LaVine. The Bulls stood pat, and the Wolves played the season with Dunn labeled as their point guard of the future generating rumors that Ricky Rubio would be the guard traded at some point.
A year later former Bulls coach and current T-wolves coach Tom Thibodeau gets his man, reuniting with Butler on draft night yet again, for amost the exact same deal. The inclusion of the Wolves seventh pick appears to be what tipped the scale for Chicago to pull the trigger. The main difference this year that LaVine is coming off knee surgery and Butler has turned into a hands down top-20 player in the league entering his prime. Butler used to say that he an coach Thibodeau had a "love-hate relationship", but the head coach has always been able to get the best out of the Gold Medalist and All-Star. Butler will now be inserted into a lineup that already includes young stars Andrew Wiggins and Karl Anthony-Towns, and one that is sure to at least concern the rest of the Western Conference.
With the price tags for Paul George and Porzingis being dragged around draft week and distracting everyone, it's surprising to see a player of Butler's caliber going for pennies on the dollar. It was thought that multiple first round picks along with at least one starting type player would be needed to acquire the services of any of the three. LaVine and Dunn may have had a significant role for the below average Timberwolves last season, however, wouldn't have cracked much of a rotation anywhere else in the league. Including only one lottery selection to a team that is now clearly rebuilding should make Thibodeau feel like he stole something.
The Timberwolves were made able to make this type of deal by a move they made earlier in the week, by releasing oft-injured center Nikola Pekovic and gaining cap relief needed to take on Butler's contract. Butler's deal includes $95 million remaining for three more seasons, he will make $18.7 million this year. His contract also included a trade kicker clause, which bumps his compensation 5% in the event he is traded, gaining Butler an extra $1.8 million over the next three seasons.
Quite a worthwhile investment for a player that can push the Timberwolves to the next level. Bulls insider for Comcast SportsNet Chicago Vincent Goodwill spoke with his agent Bernie Lee about Butler's reaction to the trade. "He's great. He's with Thibs now."
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The Crown and the Arrow: A Wrath and Dawn Short Story by Renee Ahdieh (★★★★★)
Loved The Wrath and the Dawn? This very short story tells the beginning of the tale from Khalid's point of view and reminded me exactly why I've been beyond excited to read The Rose and the Dagger at the end of April! While not a necessary read, I loved visiting Renee Ahdieh's beautiful prose again — if only for a little while.
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (★★★★★)
While the plot of V.E. Schwab's A Gathering of Shadows is remarkably different from the first book in the series, A Darker Shade of Magic, it was a treat to return to Red London for a brand new and exciting plot centered around an event that is essentially the element Olympics. From magic to intrigue, disguises, secret romances, fancy parties and a sinister plot, AGOS has everything, including one hell of a cliffhanger. [READ FULL REVIEW]
Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan (★★★★☆)
What Reign of Shadows occasionally lacks in nuanced storytelling, it more than makes up for in plot, characters and setting! Set in a world driven into darkness by an eternal eclipse, this Rapunzel retelling is notable for its strong female protagonist and plenty of "where did this even come from?" plot twists. [READ FULL REVIEW]
Rat Queens Vol. 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe (★★★★☆½)
The Rat Queens begin a new mission that takes them to Hannah's old college: Mage University, a place where everything is magic, from the endless library that holds all the books in existence to talking dragons with candy fetishes. Unfortunately for our heroes, Mage U is a serious test of their friendship: one which they must pass or fail.
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin (★★★★★)
Set in an alternate timeline where the Nazis and their allies won WWII, shapeshifter Yael is given a mission by the resistance: win the televised motorcycle race known as the Axis Tour, get invited to the Victor's Ball and kill Hitler. Thrilling, heartbreaking and beautifully written, the first book in the Wolf by Wolf duology is absolute perfection. [READ FULL REVIEW]
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski (★★★★☆½)
I'm glad I finally jumped on The Winner's Trilogy bandwagon! Set in a completely new world inspired by Greco-Roman culture, Rutkoski's story follows Kestrel, a cunning and privileged girl whose people have conquered and enslaved the native Herrani and a rebellious slave she purchases named Arin. Full of duels, lavish balls, star-crossed romances, plots and schemes, I cannot wait to see where this trilogy takes me.
Spider-Gwen Vol. 1: Greater Power by Jason Latour (★★★★☆½)
Spider-Gwen's alternate universe — Earth-65 to be more specific — has gotten a lot bigger! Enter Earth-65's version of Captain America, Samantha Wilson, and her sidekick/male clone Sam 13, AKA Falcon, not to mention Tony Stark's global coffee chain Stark Bucks. Pregnant Earth-616 Spider-Woman also makes an appearance and she is spectacular.
Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk (★★★★☆½)
While it's not quite the original Fight Club, this graphic novel sequel definitely takes advantage of the visual medium. Thought the book was weird? From overlying graphics that block out text bubbles to Chuck Palahniuk appearing as an actual character and the reveal that Tyler Durden is more than the Narrator's alter ego, this may be Palahniuk's weirdest work yet.
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I'm feeling a bit weird right now.
(At this disclosure, I can almost hear my friends laughing and saying "No news there, then!" – thanks guys…I KNOW that's why you love me *blows kisses*)
So, I've ditched what I was writing, because I feel the need to get these feelings and thoughts out.
Please bear with me and fear not, I'm not planning to get all sombre on you. I don't host pity parties at Broccoli HQ. Parties, maybe. But without the pity and with Prosecco!
Well, it'd be rude not to, wouldn't it?
Anyway, Mr Postman delivered a letter to Broccoli HQ today. With news of which I've been waiting for, for several years, in fact.
…it's a REALLY good job I'm an incredibly patient person.
But when I opened it, I didn't anticipate these feelings and thoughts I'm having to come spilling out so, I'm sharing them with you.
On the day of Hannah's diagnosis, the room closed in on me and I felt I'd never laugh again, never smile again and that both Hannah's life and mine – by this time SO inextricably linked – were literally over, with just these few words:
Hannah has Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
If you've ever had a diagnosis or unwelcome news of any sort, you'll probably be able to empathize. You may even remember your own cold, clammy, heart-stopping-moment when your world swiftly tilted and turned on its axis.
…and nothing was the same ever again.
And consequently, for me, the grieving and melancholy stuff kicked in for a while. I needed to lick my wounds. Soak all this stuff up. I didn't put a time scale on it. I just went with the flow. And then I decided that I could either (a) wallow in self-pity or blame myself (even though none of this was my fault…or anyone's) for the rest of my life, get everyone to perpetually feel sorry for me *cringe* or (b) just get on with life, try and enjoy it as best I could and make sure Hannah felt loved and accepted and had the best of life that I could give her.
I chose the latter!
Sure, I still have the odd weepy moment/day, and no, I'm not depressed OR still grieving. It is what it is. It's called being human.
(For those of you who're new to Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, "Hello!" *waves enthusiastically* and who've had a diagnosis like Hannah's, please, please, PLEASE hang on. Read my other posts. It's undoubtedly a rollercoaster we're on, but I do smile and laugh and enjoy most of my life. Just like you can do too!)
Current research tells us that CdLS (Cornelia de Lange Syndrome) can affect five genes (more may be found in the future, though) – the most common one usually being the one called NIPBL – which affects around 50% of people diagnosed. It's a complicated and pesky little bugger this syndrome, so looking for the one gene is like looking for a needle in a haystack…literally! I can't even find my car keys in my handbag sometimes, so I'd make a pretty rubbish geneticist, that's for sure!
Hannah was initially diagnosed as having CdLS through her heart defect, cleft palate, skeletal abnormalities, gorgeousness (if I do say so myself!) but we needed to know the critter gene causing the problems and definitive confirmation that she did actually have CdLS and not something else. So, Hannah's blood was tested to see if her NIPBL gene had gone a bit haywire.
And guess what?
It wasn't the NIPBL gene that'd caused her CdLS. *sigh*
Great. Just great. Just our luck, eh?
Even though this syndrome is rare, we couldn't just slot into the 50% category. We just had to be different.
So it was back to the drawing board and this genetics testing costs an absolute arm and a leg! Thank God we still have our NHS…for the time being, that is.
But (thankfully!) we were then invited to participate in the DDD project – Deciphering Developmental Disorders – a massive study of thousands of people who were undiagnosed. So saliva and bloods (ours and Hannah's) were sent off to a laboratory somewhere and we were advised to wait. There were no guarantees of anything coming back.
We waited….and we waited…and waited a bit more…and forgot about it…then remembered…then waited some more…until today.
The letter arrived.
So, apparently, my kid does have CdLS. And the gene called SMC1A is the cause of all her bother. Like I mentioned before, CdLS is rare…well, through this letter, this kid just got even rarer, because the SMC1A gene affects only around 5% of individuals with CdLS.
So, how did I feel/am I feeling?
Excited at receiving the letter marked clinical genetics service. News awaited, hopefully!
Tentative on opening said letter.
Melancholy on reading (yet again) Hannah's name on the same page as Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
Relieved that the root cause has been identified.
Reassured (although I never blamed myself or anyone else) that this is probably just a gene change that happened in Hannah for the first time. I didn't give it to her. I didn't inadvertently hurt her. I couldn't have done anything different or better.
Hopeful that maybe, one day, perhaps not in my lifetime though, but hopefully in Hannah's, a cure will be found to help her and other people like her.
Doubtful that a cure will be found as, given it's so rare, there won't be any funding to do the research.
Tearful – I have absolutely NO idea why. So I'm blaming my hormones.
Determined – because now I can hone in on this specific gene when doing my research. I can learn more. I really need to know more.
Scared – Because CdLS IS scary at times.
…and just a tiny bit sad and rubbish and OK about this (as OK as I'll ever be about CdLS) and maybe a little bit meh, all rolled into one.
I know, that makes no sense whatsoever, does it?
So, my girl is a five percenter. A rarer than rare little one.
That letter is a bit of a game changer.
But what it doesn't ever change is that she's Hannah. Not a diagnosis. She's a real, constantly scruffy little kid who helped change the way I saw the world. For the better.
And whilst I may feel a bit rubbish right now, I'll get over it. I won't wallow or grieve or any of that other business, because I'm thankful I have my girl, I'll continue to hold her hand along at least some of her journey….and she will SHINE.
I'm no geneticist (you don't say!), but I've done quite a lot of reading up since this syndrome came into our lives. Nevertheless, if you fancy having a read up on this gene stuff, here's a link from the Centre for Genetics Education.
And here's a link to the CdLS genetics info.
This post is dedicated to all the geneticists out there. I'm sure you find your car keys far more quickly than I do…and to all the professionals dedicated to changing the lives of people affected by CdLS for the better. Thanks SO much for taking an interest and doing what you do.


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|John Finlay and Sheila Roderick, Croft 37
|When not working with the croft and animals, John is also a firefighter
|4 horned Hebridean ram
The sheep are kept at the croft during the winter, but in May are taken to the 400 acres of fenced moorland for common grazing over the summer. Coach A's visit was on this special day. All the sheep owners on the island and their sheep dogs start in the community of Scalpay and herd the 6000 sheep of the island to summer pasture.The gate to which is just before John and Sheila's croft.
|The crofters start the sheep drive in the community of Scalpay
|The gate to the common grazing pasture
|Beth F. and Bramble after a morning's work
|Warp wound on a horizontal warping reel
|Hebridean fleece
|Flat folds of linen cloth woven by Sheila
We journey to the Outer Hebrides because this is the land of Harris Tweed. The definition of Harris Tweed: made from the wool of Scottish sheep, spun in the Outer Hebrides, woven by hand, and finished in the Outer Hebrides. When the potato famine hit Scotland 1845-47, Lady Dunmore took the tweed the islanders were weaving, traveled the world, marked up the price twenty times and came back and gave the weaver all the profit.
Harris tweed became famous worldwide and the demand kept growing. Originally the tweed was naturally dyed. Crotal, a lichen, gave light to dark rusty color. Spinning mills came in 1907 and all the yarn was then aniline dyed.
|Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Isle of Lewis
|Roddy has been a weaver for 50 years
Most of the 9 houses at Gearannen were built in the 1850's. In 1989 a trust was formed to restore the houses and the village opened in 2000. When the blackhouses were built, they were long structures with an open plan. Animals lived and one end and people lived at the other. The roof was thatched. Blackhouses were very similar to the much earlier Viking long houses. Most had open fires in the middle of the living area.
|Peat fire
|Isabel, our guide at the village
Isabel, our guide, grew up in Carloway and loves the island. She just graduated from university on the mainland and knows she will most like need to return to the mainland to find work, but hopes she can move back home to live in the future. She is a Gaelic speaker and treated us to a song passed down through her family.
|Peat covers the island but requires backbreaking labor to benefit from the glowing warmth it produces when burned
|All the buildings in the village have thatched roofs
|Evelyn S., Jere L., Judy L, and Elaine P.
|Dun Carloway Broch
|Margaret Curtis, local archeologist
|Callenish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis
Much of her research has involved the location of the moon on it's yearly path and how the moon aligns with certain stones. The sun alignment also enters into the story of the stones on summer solstice and vernal equinox. However, Margaret doesn't think the sun alignment was as important at this formation as the moon.
|A window created by the positioning of these two stones.
|Gerry K. and Tammy P. captivated by Margaret's insights
|Patrice H. and Maria L. ponder this unusually shaped stone


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Attorneys say a $64 million court judgment against VictoryLand casino in Macon County and its owner, Milton McGregor, won't be affected by the Macon County sheriff being dropped from the litigation.
Lucky Palace and 15 charities sued VictoryLand, McGregor and Sheriff David Warren, alleging they worked together to keep a second casino from being built in the central Alabama county to compete with VictoryLand. A jury in May returned a $64 million verdict against McGregor and VictoryLand. It ruled the sheriff misinterpreted the county's rules for electronic bingo.
An attorney for the charities, Bob Spotswood, said the charities agreed to dismiss the case against the sheriff, but it has no impact on the $64 million judgment.
The sheriff's attorney, James Anderson, said he's delighted to put the suit behind him.
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Well, Barack Obama will be the next president of the united states. I speak for about 52% of the country (and who knows how much of the rest of the world) when I say w00t! Now onto the criticism.
The Vancouver Sun just published a column explaining that Obama can't possibly deliver on all of his promises. I tend to agree that even with Obama's proposed taxes he can't possibly deliver universal health care, alternative energy, and a puppy in every house, the Sun seems to believe that he can't even raise taxes:
His plan to raise capital gains taxes, the first such tax increase since 1986, is a non-starter. Similarly, he will have to moderate his proposed tax increase for households with incomes above $200,000.
Um, what? He will have to moderate his plan to repeal the historic tax cut of 2001, which is set to expire in 2010 without renewal? Why, exactly will he have to do that? And what about raising the capital gains tax is a "non-starter"? A faulty spark plug, or a vague, unspecified problem which has yet to determined but will nonetheless ruin everything?
You know what else is a "non-starter"? Limiting executive pay. But it passed in the bailout.
In fact, the bailout itself was a non-starter according to Pelosi. While it's true the government put in some oversight, the plan that passed was pretty similar to his proposal.
Error rating: 3. This whole article is saying "no, that won't work" without saying why.


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Interior Designers in Longview, WA
Comprehensive list of Longview, Washington based office and home interior design and decorating firms.
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TEAGUE'S INTERIORS is a family run and operated retail and interior design showroom in the middle of downtown Longview, Washington. Stop in and see the pretty and eclectic collection of fine furniture, window coverings, fabrics, accessories and lighting that TEAGUE'S has to provide. You'll be pleased you did! Stuck?
Do you wish your home looked like the pages in a magazine? Do you find yourself frustrated with your current furniture arrangement? Does your room look as if centrifugal force has taken over? Do you want to save money and time? If you have answered YES to any one of these, then you possibly need the aid from a Professional Interior Arranger.
Walls too Windows continues to supply quality products and exceptional service to SW Washington and Portland residents. Owned and run by Patti Marvitz since 1991, Patti is an Associate member of NWSID Northwest Society of Interior Designers, a Window Fashions Certified Specialist, and an active member of the Building Industry Assoc., where she was honored with the Presidential Award for outstanding
Interior Elegance is passionate about creating inspired interiors for our clients. We offer a wide range of services that include: Real Estate Staging, New Construction & Remodel Design, Color Consultations and Painting Services, Assistance with Lighting Selection and Layout, Furniture Selection and Space Planning. Our goal is to provide peace of mind to homeowners undertaking a home sale, design and/or
- My husband and I recently contacted Interior Elegance to help us sell our home. Our house
Since 1991, I've had the pleasure of working with a fabulous clientele all over the Portland/Vancouver area. i am passionate about what I do and treat each project as if it was my own! I believe in my community and the benefits of working together to make it the finest it can be.
Custom Interior Design and Home Staging. We offer all phases of custom interior design including: color analysis, furniture layout, window dressings, all hard surfaces selection, shopping services, and custom design. We also offer a: Use What You Have, room make-over that essentially lets you use a designer's eye for your room and benefit from the re-use of your current furnishings. Together we can
It is all part of: Better Living By Design! As an Interior Designer, my goal is improving quality of life. I am committed to the planning of your space in a way that reflects your own individual tastes and lifestyle. I will plan your space, aid coordinate colors and select wall coverings, fabrics, carpeting, furniture, window treatments, lighting and accessories.
For more than 30 years Ann King has traveled and lived around the world studying color, ornamental textiles, tent history, interior design, architecture and traditional handwork in a huge range of cultures. King's color expertise is strongly influenced by studying world cultures firsthand and from her many years of designing textiles.


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Can i come to work for you?? OMG You did the one thing I have prayed someone would do, and that is be truthful about food stamps! Several years ago I made the mistake of getting sick in this country... I eventually ended up on SSI... Becasue I choose to be a stay at home mother, so my total income was 675.00 now SSI said... I could not receive food stamps, they are a sale-able item, you can not own any sale-able items...Literally 675.00 was for everything Rent, gas electric, food... good luck with that... when I asked about section 8 housing ... there was none. but they said I should only spend 30% of that income on housing... 185.00 a month???? UUUMMMM... O,K where do I find that??? Not their responsibility... If you check out my Facebook page... I am not ( obviously stupid, ignorant, last or a drug addict) So I started looking at what government feels is reasonable, I started with the food pyramid...I would love to be able to follow the food pyramid for one month ans see what the total is... and compare that to what the average person on food stamps is given...The fact is... To be healthy one has to eat the right foods, if the government wants to cut down what is spent on medical care... they need to increase the ability of families to eat good foods. If the government wants to cut down on dental care... same applies, if the government want to stop people from cheating they need to provide enough to sustain a family whose main income is SSI...If we are to create a healthy society we need to give them hope.
I was a single mother with 2 children... living on 675.00 a month...consider that statement...
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The Disabled People's Association (DPA) advocates on behalf of and with persons with disabilities (PWD) to engage with stakeholders, policy makers and other interested parties and ensure PWD are involved in the consultation, implementation and evaluation of policies and programs that affect PWD.
DPA aims to create awareness about as well as engage people—with or without disabilities—in discussions about disability through public education, training, consultative services, research and advocacy.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association Singapore (MDAS) is a self-help organisation which is focused on empowering people with Muscular Dystrophy. MDAS focuses on providing care and support to those with Muscular Dystrophy, provide health and public education as well as support medical research.
In view of the challenges faced by people with Muscular Dystrophy and their families, MDAS aims to render its fullest support by extending its membership privileges to all children, youth and adults with Muscular Dystrophy.


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Can't wait to get outside after these chilly winter months? Most of us have been wishing for warm sunshine, bike rides, not having to wear big, insulated jackets and beautiful, blooming plants. As much as all of these sound nice, those who have asthma and/or allergies aren't always thrilled about spring returning. Pollen really packs a punch!
Spring pollen from trees, grass and other plants is blown into the air all around us, making it almost impossible to avoid. Pollen can blow up to 50 miles, so you don't have to be standing right next to a tree or a flower bed to come into contact with it.
Allergic reactions to pollen can cause symptoms in your throat, nose, lungs, sinuses, ears, lining of the stomach or skin. Allergies can also heighten asthma symptoms, making it harder to breathe. And it may not always just be pollen causing symptoms. Air pollution and temperature changes can worsen your symptoms.
There are a few ways to enjoy the outdoors while keeping your asthma at bay. Try to avoid going outside when pollen levels are high, usually 5 a.m. through 10 a.m. You can also track pollen levels on multiple websites and mobile apps. Turn on your air conditioning instead of opening your windows. Wash your clothes and take a shower after being outside so as to not transfer pollen indoors.
Find someone else to take care of your yard and lawn. Keeping your grass short will help keep pollen at bay. If you must do it yourself, wear a mask and take your medication beforehand to minimize pollen inhalation.
If you hang your clothes and other items outside to dry, don't. Dry them indoors. If you work out, do it inside. If you do exercise outside, take your asthma medications before you go to help prevent an asthma attack.
These steps help keep your allergies and asthma under control. However, they aren't always enough. Medication may need to be used to alleviate your symptoms during the high-pollen spring months. Consult your primary care provider if you know you'll need medications for the upcoming seasons. It's best to be prepared.
If you have asthma, make sure your prescriptions are filled before spring arrives. It's also a good idea to have quick-relief medication around in case of flare-ups. Some people stop using their asthma medications during the off seasons because they feel fine. If you're one of them, get back on track before spring catches you off guard.
Follow any treatment plans you have for asthma and/or allergies. Also, wear an allergy bracelet. Sometimes a person may be unable to speak due to shortness of breath. Allergy bracelets can be life savers if you're in a place where no one knows you have asthma or allergies. It is recommended you wear these medical identity badges all the time to alert medical workers in an emergency. Better safe than sorry.
Make sure you talk with your primary care provider if you have trouble controlling your asthma or allergy symptoms during spring. If you are having more severe allergies or asthma, please schedule a visit with your primary care provider as soon as possible. If you do not have a primary care provider, please call 317-880-8687.
Nydia Nunez-Estrada, M.D.
Family Medicine
Eskenazi Health Urgent Care East
See this original article in the Eastside Voice where Dr. Nunez-Estrada has a monthly column.


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Ai Yabana started playing the piano at the age of 4. Breezing through the illustrious Toho Gakuen Music Academy in Tokyo and The Juilliard School in New York, Ai grew from prodigy to pro.
Since completing her musical studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Ai has been performing actively with the Salzburg Kammerphilharmonie and Universitat orchestra. Her impeccable musicianship later led to her participation in the Yehudi Menuhin "Live Music Now" project.
A bona-fide maestro, Ai has coached instrumentalists as a repetiteur at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Music and Arts in Graz, Austria.


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Violet Rose and the Very Snowy Winter Sticker Activity Book
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|Jannie Ho
|Violet Rose
When Mia has an accident in the snow, Violet accompanies her to the hospital. Happily, Mia is soon on the mend, but Violet notices that the hospital is looking a little drab – perhaps it could do with some decorations to make it look more festive? Back at home, she and her friends get to work on garlands and cards, and they even make gifts for the hospital staff and patients! As Christmas approaches, life in Sunnyville becomes even busier – there's the shopping to do, a concert to attend, and a feast to prepare. But disaster strikes when Sprinkles and Twinkles get lost in the snow – can Violet and her friends rescue them in time for Christmas?
Another visually gorgeous activity book that, along with its companion website, will keep children busy for hours.
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On the sun terrace Grächen (http://www.graechen.ch), in the middle of the wonderful mountain world, you can prepare yourself properly for the Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon. Mountain adventure and wellness pleasure are waiting for you in the family-run hotel Hannigalp, which is situated in a very calm environment (http://www.hannigalp.ch/). You will be professionally supported by Andreas Butz and his training team Laufcampus. Since 2006 we organise in collaboration with the hotel Hannigalp and Andreas Butz this very popular training week, where next to the sport, the pleasurable moments are not neglected.
Did we tent you? Here (https://www.laufseminare-laufreisen.com/schweiz/zermattmarathon.html) you find more information.


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In the wake of what was a frankly disappointing Barcelona performance against Malaga, Sergi Roberto gave the club some good news by committing his future to the Catalans until 2019.
Having another homegrown talent secured for the longer term shouldn't be understated. Barcelona, perhaps more than any other club, take great stock and pride in their ability to keep producing talent of the highest quality.
Assuming Luis Enrique is in the managerial position at Barca for the long term too, he has already shown his commitment to utilising the younger talent in the side with Roberto himself, Munir El-Haddadi, Marc Bartra and others getting decent minutes under their belts.
In essence, by constantly rotating and keeper the less experienced heads in the picture, it can only be good for their development.
See Also
- Sergi Roberto agrees new Barcelona contract
Question mark remains
But there does remain a question mark over Roberto however.
Whilst no one can question his ability per se, he has been in and around the first team picture quite a bit longer than the rest, and even now still doesn't appear quite ready to make his mark.
Sub appearances in the big games, and perhaps a full 90 minutes against supposed lesser opponents hint that he hasn't fully gained the trust of the technical staff at the club.
And when all is said and done, what can we point to as justification for the extension on his contract?
If the truth be told, not a great deal.
Hands off
Moreover, the length of contract seems to indicate more of a "hands off" approach to any other suitors as much as to hedge their bets that Roberto will eventually come good on a regular basis.
If we look at the current midfield set up, then even as a die-hard Barca fan, you can't honestly say that Roberto will displace any one of either Andres Iniesta, Ivan Rakitic or Xavi Hernandez.
The latter may well be coming to the end of his career at Camp Nou in any event, but is Roberto really going to be happy playing a bit-part role for the next 3-4 seasons+ until one of the other two decides to hang up their boots?
Not bothered
Just over 20 appearances at senior level since he made his debut four years ago isn't enough for a player who will shortly turn 23.
But intriguingly the player doesn't appear to be too bothered telling the official Barcelona website:
"I want to help the team as much as I can, whether as a starter, coming on in the second half or not even making the squad. Luis Enrique has said that he wants all of the players to be at their peak."
Lack of ambition?
Is it a sign of a lack of ambition that he is just happy to be involved in and about the squad rather then pushing hard for a start every week?
With a buyout clause raised to €30 million Barca have succeeded in warding off other clubs for now, but it's time for the player to put in the hard yards, or risk becoming just another La Masia statistic.


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Hippies, peace signs, lava lamps, pet rocks, mood rings, VW Bugs, tube tops, platform footwear the 60's and 70's have been funkadelic and groovy. Cotton, wool, coir fiber, and numerous sorts of foam are the most commonly used mattress fillings. Open-ended springs, continuous coil springs and pocket springs are some of the spring programs which are used in these mattresses. Reminiscence foam mattress is another kind of mattress which is created from visco-elastic foam. The foam will get softened by the physique's heat and contours itself in line with one's body form. The density of the foam together with the depth of the mattress are the components that should be thought-about whereas buying a reminiscence foam mattress. Sap extracted from the rubber trees is used because the filling in these mattresses.
If this describes your 'sleeping' pattern, then a good quality memory foam mattress might be the reply to your (and your partners) prayers. The many variations, between a traditional coiled spring type mattress and the other crafted from this type of hi-tech reminiscence foam, are going to be offered, to help you absolutely grasp the difference. One in every of some ways, by which any kind of a memory foam mattress may be a lot more healthy, would be one hundred % body assist. A very good mattress constructed with visco foam and a mattress made utilizing coiled springs differ significantly in this respect. Hence, some futon mattresses can either have excessive variety of coils or little variety of coils.
Nonetheless, upon further examination many of these companies have been using inferior high quality foam and I didn't really feel snug that it could stand the check of time. Moderately, they had been using innovation to enhance upon using NASA's technology in a design that might answer the concerns that Tempur-Pedic and different memory foam mattress consumers seemed to want addressed. What made the Tri-Pedic more revolutionary than the competition, was that it found a method to handle a few of the previously mentioned Tempur-Pedic and other five pound density reminiscence foam mattress concerns. The comparisons in feel of the Tri-pedic and Tempurpedic Cloud mattresses are very close, but 4lb.
You'll be able to form a giant mattress out of small ones you probably have two or greater than two of these mattresses. Its crib 5 mattresses and contract beds are of best possible high quality and likewise the range may be very suitable for patrons. Today, it's easy to locate mattresses which are available in a variety of diverse varieties. Though every of those forms of mattresses are nice, it's essential to make a possibility amongst one particular which is able to fit very simply into your spending price range. Step one to getting rid of odors in your reminiscence foam is to take the froth and put it within the shower.
Plant-primarily based memory foam features a much bigger cell structure that allows better breathability than conventional varieties. Conventional memory foam created from petrochemicals have been proven to launch sixty one chemical compounds, 18 of which are harmful sufficient to warrant concern from state and international businesses. Anywhere from 5-15% of individuals might experience discomfort with the odor, and it is a fairly frequent grievance seen in opinions.


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- Meals for special events throughout the year like National Day of Civic Hacking and Open Data Day
- Much more!


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Pat Cleveland in her home studio in New Jersey. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times.
The peacocks were rooting around in the bushes, strutting and pecking and ruffling their trains. Occasionally, one — Boy or Big Boy, say, or Snow White — struck a pose, tipping its beak up to emit a banshee shriek.
"They're just a bunch of drama queens, honey," said Pat Cleveland, as she sat in the backyard of her house in a rural part of New Jersey, sipping on a sinister-looking juice drink the color and texture of algae. Drama queens, as it happens, is a topic on which Ms. Cleveland has some stories to tell.
This she does in "Walking with the Muses," a picaresque new memoir about a tall, skinny mixed-race girl ("not black enough to be black or white enough to be white") hailing from a section of East Harlem that she terms the Golden Edge.
In her 1950s childhood, Ms. Cleveland writes, that neighborhood was still representative of a now largely bygone city, a place where "the Jews, the blacks, the Irish and the Puerto Ricans all had a corner of their own."
Ms. Cleveland took her leave from childhood's haunts fairly early and through the kind of cinematic turn of fate that seems to have characterized much of her life. A Vogue editor discovered the then-14-year-old on a subway platform, chased her down and set her on the road to becoming a fashion model.
"Model" is probably too limited a job description for a woman who, through a singular combination of moxie, off-kilter beauty and preternatural energy, spent the next five decades romping across continents and stamping her imprint on an industry that, if it didn't always know what to do with her, inevitably succumbed to her goofball appeal.
"Pat was a muse for Halston, Stephen Burrows, Giorgio Sant'Angelo and Antonio Lopez," Diane von Furstenberg, the designer and chairwoman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, wrote in a recent email from Tokyo, where she had paused briefly on her way to Bhutan. "She was, and is still, magical."
Whether on catwalks in New York or the various European capitals of fashion, Ms. Cleveland made for an unconventional model, one not classically beautiful and yet "a more gorgeous version of Josephine Baker," as Ms. von Furstenberg said.
Dancing, twirling, strutting on a runway and "moving like no one else," as the designer added, Ms. Cleveland had an effect on the catwalk best captured by another top model of the era, Janice Dickinson: "When she moved, she painted the air around her with the clothes."
To comprehend what Ms. Cleveland is to the recent history of fashion, it probably helps to consider what fashion is not anymore: an insular and largely tribal business dominated by cliques and elites. Compelling to a largely cult fan base, fashion in Ms. Cleveland's 1970s prime was anything but the corporate juggernaut and global entertainment spectacle it has since become.
American fashion, in particular, during the era when Ms. Cleveland first appeared, was also more porous and racially diverse than it would be in the subsequent decades. Success in the business was measured in those days not by social media metrics but by an ability to bewitch the cognoscenti, to make yours a name they whispered about.
And seemingly Ms. Cleveland has been an object of fascination for those around her almost from the time she was born 65 years ago to a white Swedish saxophonist and an African-American artist from the South. Soon after, Ms. Cleveland's father, Johnny Johnston, returned to Sweden, leaving her mother, Lady Bird Cleveland, to raise her freckle-faced young daughter alone.
"If you're a single black woman and have a Swedish lover, life is never going to be easy, and Lady Bird didn't have the opportunities in life," Ms. Cleveland said. "But her lesson to me was always, whatever your circumstances are, it's up to you to create your own world."
She was sitting at a picnic table in the mild spring sunshine. Behind her was a clutch of the tame peacocks that had strayed from a nearby farm and into the yard of her modest split-level house one day and somehow remained.
Set amid a row of cookie-cutter plots carved from rich local farmland, the house was Lady Bird's until her death last year from Alzheimer's disease. More than a decade ago, Ms. Cleveland and her husband, the photographer Paul Van Ravenstein, returned to the United States from the Italian mountain village where they'd been living, to care for the ailing woman.
"I tell my kids I expect them to do the same for me," Ms. Cleveland said of her son, Noel Van Ravenstein, a sometime model and yoga teacher, and her daughter, Anna Cleveland, who herself has cut a considerable swath through the modeling business in recent years.
Throughout the house hang scores of the prolific Lady Bird Cleveland's paintings and drawings; images of black historical figures crowd the walls there, stand five deep in a storeroom and are even taped inside kitchen cabinet doors.
A parallel domestic presence is that of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, the Hindu spiritual leader who counts Ms. Cleveland among her devotees. Dressed in a raspberry-colored T-shirt and snug plum jeans, Ms. Cleveland looked surprisingly fresh that day, particularly given that she'd driven home from Manhattan at 6 in the morning, after a marathon all-night photography session with Anna Cleveland for a catalog.
The prosaic suburban setting seemed a far cry from her glamorous work life and from the high-life haunts Ms. Cleveland depicts in her book.
It was not easy to square the serene figure at the picnic table with the goofball naïf who over the years found herself on coke-addled jaunts through the Serengeti with tempestuous models and photographer divas; who spent a thousand nights clubbing in New York or Paris fueled by lavish quantities of Champagne and other stimulants; who embarked on nearly that many libidinal adventures along the way.
"I practically killed myself at the Tenth Floor," she remarked offhandedly, referring to a members-only 1970s gay dance club made famous in Andrew Holleran's novel "Dancer from the Dance." "I was wearing platform shoes and went up on a ladder and started laughing and dancing because we all had poppers and I almost fell off."
"Walking with the Muses," a densely peopled and illustrated volume, is studded with the boldface names of Ms. Cleveland's acquaintance ("Diane Vreeland was a freak and she liked the freaks," she remarks), and amorous partners — Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty make appearances — but also with cultivated figures from her mother's Harlem Renaissance coterie. It was Carl Van Vechten who snapped some of Ms. Cleveland's earliest photos.
What's notable about Ms. Cleveland's story is its grounding in an untutored wisdom, her own canny powers of observation and a willingness to write with candor about professional challenges that, as often as not, were rooted in race.
When she first appeared on the scene, according to André Leon Talley, a contributing editor of Vogue, Ms. Cleveland was a type of model people hadn't seen before. "A skinny girl from Harlem with no boobs and a frizz of hair," is how she describes herself.
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Clever ideas to maximise small spaces
It is by no means pleasurable to return to a cluttered and overcrowded space. To alleviate part of that nightmare without having the extra bill of footing an extension to your existing architectural plan, here are some interior design ideas to create space.
Optical illusions achieved by your colour choices
An intelligent starting point would be a reconsideration of your existing colours. Deep and dark colours tend to create a 'dungeon-like' feel to any space, so why not consider going for those soft, clear pastels to give your space a sense of openness? Bear in mind that deep, dark and warm colours (in their fullest colour intensity) have an advancing effect on the eye, while light, pale and cool colours are renowned for their receding qualities. The latter colours would therefore be the best options if the desired objective is that of opening up a small space. The ceilings too can benefit from this concept by maintaining the traditional white or off-white paint colours to give the illusion of expansiveness. When you are painting your room the next time, consider using the existing wall colour on your ceiling's lattices and cornices to incorporate a sense of additional height being added to that small engulfing wall space.
Do you really need all those items and odd accessories that are taking away so much of the room's space? Disproportional wall hangings and protruding furnishings all eat into valuable floor space. Sift through all the goods in your room and keep only those you really use and truly enjoy – find a decent disposal such as a charity for the rest or look into using them in other rooms of the house.
Electronic storage
Are you aware that with modern technological developments, most of the records you keep in those many folders can be stored as electronic files on disc or computer? This could be extremely beneficial for those with limited office and home study facilities. Have you considered wall-mountable shelving alternatives to take away all those piles that are lying around your precious working area and consuming so much space?
Dual-purpose furniture
Modern furnishing options have been devised as a result of ergonomic designers being aware of limited spaces in modern architectural environments. Imagine the amount of space you could save in any given space through utilising '2-in-1' intelligent furniture, such as an ottoman seat with a 'flip-top lid' that gives you additional storage space, or a lounge sofa that offers a built-in 'fold-up bed' option
Magical mirrors
Have you ever considered incorporating mirrors in your décor scheme to capitalise on their reflectance qualities? If the space allows you to add this accessory, ensure you use one with a thin frame that sits comfortably on the walls of your small room's space. Mirrors are great for reflecting light in the room and for echoing your colour and pattern scheme within the space. Speaking of light reflectance, consider incorporating additional light sources to your room through down-lights and spot-lights which intelligently work best in limited spaces as opposed to those lamps that consume your precious surface space.
Let in the light
Get rid of visual obstructions such as furnishings positioned in front of light sources, especially windows. For rooms where privacy is not a major concern, heavy curtains could be replaced by sheer, lace fabrics that are tied back by day to maximise on natural light entering the room. For rooms where privacy is essential, blinds with louvers that can be adjusted accordingly can also be considered for use.
Keep it simple
In small spaces, avoid an ensemble of accessories such as floor tiles, rugs, carpets, picture frames, paintings and all those fabric designs that are multi-coloured and multi-patterned. Such designs tend to jump out in any design scheme and are certainly not visually pleasing.
Optical illusion
What then can one recommend for wall accessories? Hanging a framed picture or painting with an outdoor scene can expand the look of your space optically and psychologically. Think of the expansiveness you could envision by putting up a work of art that depicts a scene of an open garden being viewed from an open window or a beautiful vista of a rather distant horizon.
There are so many ways to deceive the human eye when it comes to opening up a given space in interior design. It is amazing to know just how this can be achieved by simply using a variety of intelligent decorating techniques without physically adding that extra square meter to your space.


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It's been a few months since I've been able to update the blog. Apologies for those of you still out there! I'll strive to update this lovely corner of the Internet more consistently. If you'd like to see more updates, lately, Instagram has been my jam. Find me at instagram.com/thedailylindsey. In the meantime, thought I'd pop […]
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I was recently at Walgreens shopping for foundation when a helpful sales associate shed some light on the most helpful makeup purchasing tip ever . Let me just preface this by saying, for me, drugstore foundation is a tricky thing to match. It's something I typically avoid purchasing because I have yet to buy the […]
Sephora Picks
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It's going to be a good week because Sephora is in the middle of their spring VIB sale. When I received the invite in the mail for 15-percent off any purchase, I may have let out a squeal of excitement. In the event that you may be a fellow VIB, I thought I'd share […]
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{Mario Badescu Facial Spray} {Marvis Toothpaste, Classic Strong Mint} {Sephora Lip Liner, Lovely Lilac} {Sephora Lip Liner, Cool Coral} {Laura Mercier Oil-Free Tinted Moisturizer, Sand} Testing out some new products after a trip to Sephora and the Larchmont Beauty Center. The latter is my favorite independent beauty store in town. It's nestled in Larchmont Village, […]
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The boyfriend came back from a long holiday weekend in Lexington and brought back some goodies from his mom's well-curated coffee store, Third Street Stuff. If you find yourself in town you must stop by – with its vibrant art, yumalicious menu and fun shop – it's amazing inside! I received a handful of love […]


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For want of anything better to write, decided to do this tag on seeing it in another blog.
1. Cell phone – it is always in the last pocket that is searched (cargos or handbag)
2. Maid – She invariably fail to turn up when you have to lock the house and go on a long holiday, or you are expecting guests for the day
3. Husband – Maybe because i look for him only when I need to reach the attic, clean the fan, or open bottles 🙂
4.Hair conditioner – Once you are done with vigorous shampooing and dont want to just let it be
5. ATM/Credit Card – They fail to work in situations that can be embarassing.
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I'm not greedy. I don't want the whole solar system. Just a planet. Just Saturn. Earth is pretty much played out. The rings of Saturn are really cool looking, and I like how everything on the planet looks like it kind of just blends together. Seems like it would be a really great planet if people got to know it socially.
So in case this isn't painfully clear, I call DIBS! on the planet Saturn. It's mine now. And I'm getting grumpy in my old age, so I'm going to ask that you kindly get the hell off my planet. And take your probes with you.


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American singer Ciara will be releasing new music this Friday, August 10th titled Freak Me and has also revealed that she featured Tekno on the track.
She shared the news on her social media pages and wrote;
#FreakMe Ft @TeknoOfficial out this Friday! Been dying to share this with you! Can't wait! #AfroBeats #AfroWave#FreakMeFriday 🔥🔥🔥 08.10.18


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Work starts on Villas at Mesa Park lots
Construction recently started on the Villas at Mesa Park subdivision.
Located east of Mesa Road at 19th Street, Villas will consist of 11 home lots on 4.1 acres of a 10.1-acre property. Owner/developer Walt Hieronymus has donated the other 6 acres, which have more rugged terrain, to adjacent Sondermann Park.
The project is having some initial off-site traffic impacts. A crew has been boring through the middle of 19th Street to connect the subdivision with an 8-inch sewer line that goes halfway up the street.
The developer also plans to connect the sewer to a neighboring church. ōWe've had problems with septics up there,ö said Hieronymus, who lives on Mesa Road, next to both the church and his subdivision.
In all, about 75 addresses are on septic there because no sewer line has been available. ōIt's good for the whole area,ö he said. ōThere may be others who want to tie into it.ö
Another traffic impact is likely to come from the subdivision connecting to an 18-inch water line, he said.
Approved by City Council last year, Villas at Mesa Park will be a gated community. Access will be on a new private street (named Mesa Park View) that will line up with 19th Street. A stop light is already at that intersection; Hieronymous will add a signal facing Mesa Park View.
He estimated three months to prepare the property for houses. ōI'll be selling the lots,ö he said. ōI'm not in the construction business. Some builders are interested and some individuals.ö
The basic building style, according to his plans, are a ōcombination of cottage and timber style.ö
About a year ago, Hieronymous had said he planned to live on one of his lots. Now, because of some out-of-state commitments, he's less certain about that but believes there is still ōa good possibility.ö
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|Back when GW were the kings of flashy cool logos.
Flash forward 25 years now and now we finally have them in plastic and in even more dynamic pose options. It took a long time for them to get to this point. As noted above, they arrived on the scene in '88 with their very own boxed set (RTB06), In fact, they had not been out for long when I was introduced to the hobby at the Doctor's birthday party back in '88 and they were the rage of the moment as far as 40K releases were going. The Dr had one painted at this time, and I was enthralled by it. But, for whatever reason, I chose to play orks instead. I'm straying a bit here, but the point is that they were just vicious foes to have to face on the table top back then, and awesome to behold in action, and stirred up quite a lot of excitement, especially in regard to what their weapons could do. It was the first appearance of monofilament weapons in 40K, and it was nasty. However it had a counterbalance; the user could get stuck to their victim!
|Rogue Trader took the concept of 'Instant Death' a lot more seriously back then!
They were of course, seriously toned down by the time Warhammer 40,000 2nd edition came along, and now decades later, we started this year off with them being little more than a pretty unit selection that no one took because, well, Guardians were better! So I was surprised to see them getting their own codex and now that I have it I have been pouring through the thing.
Over the years, I have accumulated a small collection of Harlies. There was a guy around 10 years ago that was selling them in bulk on ebay and I got a freezer bag full of about 40 of them. Far more than it made sense to own at the time. Looking at the codex, and comparing what I have, it's interesting to note the changes to the Harlequin Organization. Below is an image from WD 105 (vol 1):
|From WD 105
Glad I never spent the money to convert up one of those dreads as they are now gone from the list. However, I once painted one for a friend of mine, but I can't find a photo of it. Also gone are the Venoms (from the their last list, the CJ 3rd edition one), which are now the property of the Dark Eldar. The new Starweavers and Skyweavers are acceptable replacements however, so no real loss.
Somewhat keen on this new Codex-Harlequins, I thought it might be fun to see if I have enough models to actually field them as a small ally force, and sure enough I do. But what color to paint them? I decided to go with this faction from the codex called the The Reaper's Mirth, which is appropriate because I have a lot of Death Jesters (more than I can use in a 'Bound' Force Selection actually) and also because the red in their attire would go with the colors I have selected for my Dark Eldar and Eldar forces (see here).
|The Reaper's Mirth
Note that I am going to count the Web Pistol, which doesn't currently exist in the game, as a Fusion Pistol.
On the model's left leg I decided to make a trio of diamond patterns to give a fading down sort of appearance. The triangle on the knee is from the Codex, and it represents the 'light'. The icon on the other leg is the symbol of the Reaper's Mirth and it was a pain in the ass to get it to look even sort of right.
So far, I'm pleased with it, but when I looked at the original paint schemes from WD105-106 I am just stunned with the caliber of detail that they painted on to those models back then. In contrast, mine look like highschool sports team uniforms, however I am telling myself that the image from the Codex (the book had no painted examples, just what I snapped above) are there to be just a guide, and not a rule. Which means I need to paint a few more before I know for sure!
Oh, and one more time, for the love of GW's old unique logo designs:
NOTE: many images above were taken from GW product, these are intended for review purposes and not as a challenge to the copyright or Intellectual Property of Games Workshop,


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Earlier this month, six countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization—Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia—held exercises in southern Russia in which soldiers from each of the countries, as part of the organisation's nascent 'Rapid Reaction Force,' cooperated to defeat a 'terrorist' threat.
Yet when brutal violence broke out in one of the CSTO member countries, Kyrgyzstan, just days later, the group didn't respond rapidly at all. Kyrgyzstan's interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, even asked Russia to intervene, but Russian President Dmitry Medvedev responded that Russians would only do so under the auspices of the CSTO. And nearly a week after the start of the violence—which some estimate has killed more than 1000 people and threatens to tear the country apart—the CSTO has still not gotten involved, but says it is 'considering' intervening.
'We did not rule out the use of any means which are in the CSTO's potential, and the use of which is possible regardless of the development of the situation in Kyrgyzstan,' Russian National Security Chief Nikolai Patrushev said Monday.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
On June 10-11, another regional security group, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, held its annual summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The SCO has similar collective security aims as the CSTO, and includes Russia, China and most of the Central Asian republics, including Kyrgyzstan. But despite the violence that was going on even as the SCO countries' presidents met in Uzbekistan, that group also didn't involve itself in the conflict, and made only a tepid statement calling for calm.
Civil society groups in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan (much of the violence is directed toward ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, and the centre of the violence, the city of Osh, is right on the border of Uzbekistan) called on the United Nations to intervene. And Otunbayeva said she didn't ask the US for help.
Even Uzbekistan, which many in Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere feared might try to intervene on behalf of ethnic Uzbeks, has instead opted to stay out of the fray, and issued a statement blaming outsiders for 'provoking' the brutal violence.
The violence has exposed a security vacuum in Central Asia that no one appears interested in filling. In spite of all of the armchair geopoliticians who have declared that a 'new Great Game' is on in Central Asia, the major powers seem distinctly reluctant to expand their spheres of influence there.


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Charlotte grew up in the Boston socialite spotlight.
Bentley grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.
One chance baseball game will change both of their lives forever.
But will their relationship stand the test of ex-lovers, arson, and Charlotte's parents?
About the Author
Danielle A. Elwood is a blogger by trade who started writing her first romance novel Take Me Out as a hobby in 2012. She is a avid romance novel lover herself, which inspired her to take the leap into writing her own. She resides in Daytona Beach, Florida with her family. Some of her inspirations in writing include Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Laura Kaye, Melony Anne, and Jamie McGuire.
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