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The New York Lottery Family Feud ad campaign focuses on a family home staple: the photo wall. But instead of posed group shots at the local Sears, these ornate frames hold something even more precious: winning lottery tickets for the popular game Family Feud. Cleverly written alongside these tickets are phrases such as "No family participation required" and "No family no feud just money."
Conceived and created by DDB, the New York Lottery Family Feud ad campaign was art directed by Michael Kushner with creative direction by Rich Sharp and Mike Sullivan. Visually appealing with bold typography, retro wallpaper backdrops and vintage picture frames, the campaign will grab people's attention immediately, especially since it alludes to winning a lot of money.
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Members, directors, officers of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and a variety of distinguished guests gathered in Grain Valley, MO, on Oct. 9 to join the professional trucker organization in dedicating its new headquarters. The event also commemorated OOIDA's 25th anniversary.
"For me, it is particularly significant that we are dedicating this new building at the same time we celebrate our 25th anniversary," said Jim Johnston, OOIDA president. "The building is dedicated to the success of small business trucking and it opens the next phase in our growing ability to better represent the interests of professional truckers."
Johnston took the time to recap the past 25 years, and noted that OOIDA's mission remains the same.
"Our goal has always been to provide the best representation possible to professional truckers," he said. "We strive to ensure that they are placed on at least equal footing with all competing interests, so that they have a fair chance to succeed in the competitive business of trucking."
The U.S. government's top trucking official was among those in attendance. George Reagle, associate administrator of the Office of Motor Carriers in Washington, DC, honored OOIDA on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Reagle, who congratulated the association on its 25th anniversary and acknowledged OOIDA's many accomplishments, served as an envoy for Rodney L. Slater, U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Reagle also presented a plaque from the Federal Highway Administration to OOIDA president Jim Johnston, in recognition of the organization's efforts to assist FHWA in promoting safer highways.
In concurrence with the dedication of the new OOIDA building, the association's board of directors convened Oct. 10-12 for the fall meeting.
Three professional truckers, Eric Beck of Little Rock, AR; Francis Collins of Sugar Run, PA; and Jim Mathews of Middleton, ID, were seated as new members of the board of directors. Alternates named to the board were Tim Trotter of Castaic, CA, and Kenneth Becker of Isabella, OK. LL

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A massive mortgage meltdown is imminent after new figures show over 142,000 loans are in arrears.
Homeowners are a staggering €2 billion behind in their payments and thousands of families are now in danger of losing their home.
Official figures show 97,874 households, nearly 13%, were at least three months behind with their mortgage repayments at the end of June.
That was up by more than 2,000 from the end of March, when 95,554 were in arrears of more than 90 days.
But the overall number in arrears is a shocking 142,892 as the banks give the two fingers to the Government by refusing to help struggling borrowers.
Sinn Féin's finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said the figures show the banks are "running rings" around the Government.
He said: "This government has been in power for over two years and under its watch the mortgage crisis has got worse in every way.
"The numbers in arrears have increased, doubled in fact, and so have repossessions.
"The fact that one in four restructured mortgages is failing shows that the banks have failed to face the reality of the crisis.
"This shows unwillingness from the banks to engage in a meaningful way.
"Clearly, the banks are running rings around the government."
Leading analysts are warning that the situation is going to get a lot worse and that the banks will ultimately need billions more from the state.
The lenders were ordered by the Central Bank to propose sustainable mortgage solutions for 20% of distressed borrowers by the end of June with the preferred option split mortgages.
But the Central Bank figures show that such mortgages accounted for just 309 restructured loans.
Of most concern is the 5.6% increase to 57,163 of those more then a year in arrears.
Just over half that number are in arrears of more than two years.
Over 200 homes were repossessed or surrendered during the three months to the end of June.
There is a real danger that if they are put up for auction at knock-down prices it will scupper any hope of an upturn in the property market.
Repossessions rocketed from 166 in the first three months of the year to a total of 223 during the second quarter.
The figures show 63 struggling mortgage holders were kicked out of their home by a court order.
Another 160 were forced to voluntarily surrender or abandon their property.
Mortgage holders support group, New Beginning urged people not to be intimidated by the banks.
New Beginning founder and barrister Vincent P Martin said: "The approach of the Banks is one of heightened aggression where every attempt is made to frighten borrowers into submission.
"This will not work. It cannot work because long term deals must have "borrower buy in" as their central component.
"Deals must be fair and reasonable for all. Scare tactics do not achieve this"
The figures also show that 20.4% of buy-to-let properties were in arrears of over 90 days, up from 19.7% at the end of March.
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"Why search for greatness in such tiny worlds of squared pixels?"
Pronounced plah-gee-ah, this excellent Montreal-based is a new discovery. Their debut seems to be garnering quite a bit of critical praise, and from what I've heard, they deserve it. Plajia is an enchanting trip-rock group composed of Patrick Pleau (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica), Simon Boivin (bass and backing vocals) and Pascal Laviolette (drums, percussion and backing vocals). The songs are a flurry of layers, some beautiful, some rocking, some sharp, some soft. A barrage of sound creeping up and down your back. They bounce between styles - while "The Other Side of the Squared Pixels" makes you want to close your eyes and listen to the layers, "Dummy" alternately creeps you and makes you smile, "Beautiful Explosion" aims to make you dance in your seat and "Is That The End?" wants you to cry. However, they do it effectively enough to impress me.
Their lyrics are nothing to write home about, with "Pixels" rushing through a disjointed message about gamers being cut off from the rest of the world and "End"'s lyrics being nothing an emo somewhere hasn't cut into their arm. However, the words are just window dressing, as the music here is the real draw.
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Plajia - Dummy
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Mimicking the graphic design of 1940's newsreel credits, Jules de Balincourt's United We Stood provocatively harks back to a time when US patriotism was untroubled and convincing. Painted in vibrant colours, Jules de Balincourt renders this logo strange: transplanting history to a contemporary context, its significance is lost amidst graffiti and disco era reference. Made with spray paint stencils and tape-ruled brushwork on wood panel, Jules de Balincourt's authoritarianism suggests a lurid sub-plot of make-do survivalism.
Jules de Balincourt's sculptures are created with the same home-brew imaginativeness of his paintings. Crude and funny, they champion crafty determination, inspiration and the power of grass-root enthusiasm. Untitled (Bull) is a withering miserable beast. Sewn together like an abused stuffed toy, it bleeds patriot colours of red, white, and blue. Jules de Balincourt caricatures a raging market on its last legs: an orphan-like object, repugnant, yet pathetically simpatico.
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Involuntary Hospitalisation and the Rights of Mental Patients in Recent Croatian Legislation
Bosanac, Sanja Babic
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Medicine and Law: World Association for Medical Law 2002; 21(1): 87-106
This paper presents and critically analyses the provisions of the Croatian Act of 1998 on the Protection of Persons with a Mental Illness relating to involuntary hospitalisation and the rights of psychiatric patients. This analysis also encompasses the amendments and supplements of 1999. The paper identifies the problems that have arisen in the application of this Act and discusses the causes of these problems. The paper concludes that the passing of new psychiatric legislation or any radical reform of the existing legislation must be preceded by a comprehensive discussion by professionals, scientists and the broader public, which would result in the passing of legislation which can be implemented in terms of organisation, staffing and financing. Without this, any new psychiatric legislation, even if it met the highest international legal standards, would be exposed to the danger of being merely declarative, which would bring most harm to mental patients themselves.
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Most people would tend to assume that reflecting on your own death is going to be a bit of a downer. Why think about that depressing stuff?
Well, there's a good reason why. It can make you a happier and better person.
In an experiment in the UK, people were asked to reflect about death in an abstract way, were asked to imagine their own death, or (as a control) were asked to imagine toothache.
Next, the participants were given an article, supposedly from the BBC, about blood donations. Some people read an article saying that blood donations were "at record highs" and the need was low; others read another article reporting the opposite – that donations were "at record lows" and the need was high. They were then offered a pamphlet guaranteeing fast registration at a blood center that day and told they should only take a pamphlet if they intended to donate.
People who thought about death in the abstract were motivated by the story about the blood shortage. They were more likely to take a pamphlet if they read that article. But people who thought about their own death were likely to take a pamphlet regardless of which article they read; their willingness to donate blood didn't seem to depend on how badly it was needed.
Thinking about death — your own death — can make you realize what's important in life. That's one reason why the Buddha suggested that we should reflect frequently:
- I'm going to get old
- I'm going to get sick
- I'm going to die
- I'm going to be separated from all that's dear to me
There's a fifth reflection that's a part of this set as well:
- I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.'
To sum that up, life is short, and you're responsible for what you do with it. The clear implication is that with all that in mind we're more likely to live well, paying attention to those things — like helping others — that are really important.
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Someone on Facebook commented about Terror Management Theory (TMT), which is a branch of psychology looking at how we handle our fear of death. Often it's been found that when people are subtly reminded of death, they become more rigid and cling to nationalism, religion, etc.
TMT is fascinating, and I go into it in my most recent book, Living as a River.
There is a difference (as the study I refer to above shows) between thinking about death in a general sense (which provokes anxiety) and thinking about death specifically in terms of your own death or the death of someone who is close to you. The latter approach has been shown to be life-enhancing, so that if you reflect on the future death of your spouse you tend to find that you appreciate them more and are less bothered about their little foibles. I'm sure there's a lot more study to be done on this area, but it does seem to be important how we think about death — and the more specific our thoughts are, the better.
I'd guess how it works is that if you think about death in a general sense there's some part of you that's fighting it because at some level you hope it's not going to happen to you. When you think of your own death you cut all that crap out because you've just accepted the reality that it is going to happen to you, and you're left with the question, what do I do now, knowing that I'm going to die?
I think that this is an exercise that is helpful in so many ways. It provides not just the existential & emotional benefits you describe, but it can also create important family discussions.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. -Steve Jobs
If only we could be free from the consequences of other people's actions.
I am planning to do a research on death contemplation and its impact on human happiness, for a Masters in psychology.
There is psych literature to show how people respond to death reflection and mortality salience (proposed by TMT) is different. The current method used in psych is asking respondents to think of the possibility of getting caught to a fire in a friend's apartment. This is an attempt to create a near death situation rather than death reflection. (However this is what's currently used) I am not sure whether this is equal to reflecting on death.
The problem I have is I cant find a proper reference on how to administer death contemplation. There is a lot of diversity among different groups. Can you pls help?
Hi, Sajith.
Sounds like an interesting project.
Gosh, I'd have thought that reflecting on the possibility of getting caught to a fire in a friend's apartment would be more of a contemplation of imminent pain and danger, rather than death.
When you ask about a proper reference on how to administer death contemplation, I presume you mean in the Buddhist tradition? There isn't specific guidance in the early Buddhist teachings on exactly how to do this, but we are asked to reflect, in some way, on the fact of our own deaths, and on the universality of death. Partly this was to be a process of observation:
The aging of beings in the various orders of beings, their old age, brokenness of teeth, grayness of hair, wrinkling of skin, decline of life, weakness of faculties — this is called aging. The passing of beings out of the various orders of beings, their passing away, dissolution, disappearance, dying, completion of time, dissolution of the aggregates, laying down of the body — this is called death. So this aging and this death are what is called aging and death.
And then this observation is applied to ourselves:
"There are these five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained. Which five?
"'I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.' This is the first fact that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.
"'I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.' …
"'I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death.' …
"'I will grow different, separate from all that is dear and appealing to me.' …
"'I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.' …
"These are the five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.
You'll find these passages (and others) linked to from this section of Access to Insight's index.
Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate taking trouble to clarify it in detail.
When you say "I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness" what exactly do you mean by 'have not gone beyond illness'? I want to be 100% clear. It's very clear in the death one though.
Thank you for the link, I managed to download the path of purification book from access to insight, there is an entire chapter on death meditation. Although there are 8 strategies in it, as you have said there is no specific way to do it.
Thank you once again
Ah, well that's a tricky one. The traditional explanation for going beyond illness would be that, having become enlightened, one would not be reborn and thus not be subject to illness.
However my own interpretation would be that the Enlightened person, in this life, although they may experience illness, it does not cause them mental anguish, and so they are not literally "disease-free," but are free from the suffering that arises from disease.
In my opinion your interpretation is more believable considering the Buddha himself fell ill and died despite being enlightened.
I think may be my option is taking the 5 elements in your post and create a simple provocative thought process which can be administered to the respondents in the study. Although I would love to keep it as an open process, asking people to figure out their own way, unfortunately, science insists on rigorous methods.
Anyways, it was indeed nice talking to you. Thank you so much for your constructive and prompt response.
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A Gibbs & Dandy customer encounters the magician the merchant hired for the opening of its Luton branch.
Successful open day kick starts business for Gibbs & Dandy
Published: 18 May, 2012
BEDFORDSHIRE: To boost business for trade professionals, building supplies expert Gibbs & Dandy unveiled a newly refurbished bathroom and tile showroom at its Luton branch on 21 May.
To celebrate the launch of the refurbished showroom, which now features a dedicated tile department and an extensive bathroom display, Gibbs & Dandy held a successful open day where the Mayor of Luton, Councillor Don Worlding was in attendance to officially open the impressive new site.
The showroom enjoyed a busy day with customers eager to see the changes and make the most of the opening day offers. With major suppliers in attendance, refreshments, giveaways and a magician, whose card tricks rivalled those of Derren Brown, were also added bonuses for trade and retail customers who attended on Saturday 12 May.
Commenting on the open day success and new look showroom, branch manager, Kevin Forder, said: "A lot of investment, in terms of time, resources and cost, has gone into creating our new bathroom and tile showroom, and we couldn't be happier with the results. As well as a great turn out from trade and retail customers, suppliers were on hand to offer advice and they were similarly impressed with the surroundings.
"Our decision to invest during a challenging financial climate is testament to our commitment to growing the business and helping our customers to boost their business. The new showroom not only offers trade professionals and DIY-ers an alternative place to source the latest bathroom products and designs, but the welcoming and attractive environment make it an ideal place for installers to sell to their customers.
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Toyota has launched a new customization program for the little iQ. It's designed to make the car more unique and more interesting for the younger buyers.
The City car will be getting a lot of cheap but cheerful options to make them more interesting. Customers can mix and match patterns and shades to suit their mood, and with a range of eight external paint colours, six leather combinations and six roof and body decals, there are hundreds of possible variations.
The customisation options are available now and can be specified for all versions of iQ, with the leathers priced £775, side decals £200 and roof decals £180, all inclusive of VAT, and covered by Toyota's 5 year, 100,000 mile warranty. The customisation is only available for new vehicle purchases.
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Toyota wanted personalisation options that match iQ's distinctive personality, so a plain old racing stripe or two is not going to cut much of a dash.Toyota has taken a bolder approach to livening up iQ with a range of decals that extends from a classic monochrome Check to a psychedelic multicolour Swirl. The other options are Box (a scattering of colourful quadrilaterals), Bloom (retro daisies), Pulse (a swoosh of grey strokes) and Aqua (a flow of bubbles).
Each decal design can be specified separately for the car's roof and sides.
The six leather options match Nappa leather upholstery for all four seats with toning – or contrasting – stitching and fillet inserts around the shoulder area.
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- Black leather with platinum fillets and stitching
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I've wanted a digital camera forever, and Santa came knocking early and surprised me with one before my Taiwan trip. I was so excited to snap away left and right and document my trip. It rained most of the days we were there with clouds casting a grey glow over everything, but even in this, I tried to capture the beauty. Here are my faves from the trip.
By far, the best pix of the trip….mid-morning at Sun Moon Lake as the sun is trying to break through the clouds. So peaceful and calm.
The entrance to the Raohe St Night Market bursting with Las Vegas style lights & energy.
Taiwanese soldiers doing their hourly march at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall.
Mom snapped a pix of me as I'm letting my fire lantern go in the middle of a street. So safe!
Another one from Taroko…
Buddha in a temple buried deep in Taroko's Gorge. Mosquito infested hike to get there.
Of course they love Jeremy Lin…he's Taiwanese!
One of the most interesting things I dared to try…rice flour wrapper with peanut shavings, cilantro, and ice cream. Surprisingly delish!
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We are immensely proud of our community Café, Punjabi Junction. Based on Edinburgh's longest street, Leith Walk. It has become the heart of the organisation.
Many local people and businesses drop by the café regularly to pick up a curry, request outside catering for events, to sit and enjoy the atmosphere, or even join us for some cookery classes, which have proved to be a massive success!
Founded in 2010, the café has provided traditional Punjabi home cooked cuisine to the people of Edinburgh, whilst also giving Minority Ethnic (ME) women training and employment opportunities. The women who work at Punjabi Junction, learn valuable social and practical skills that can be applied in any workplace. Covering literacy, numeracy, communication, social and customer care skills, the training the women are given covers a lot of bases whilst working with the public reinforces social inclusion.
Our cookery classes have been a great way to welcome the community and give them a taste of Punjabi culture. People from all ethnicities and backgrounds come into the café and spend time learning about the spices and methods used to make delicious hearty food. This part of the enterprise is brilliant for us, as the women are integrating with people from all cultures. Being able to pass on their knowledge of cooking, gives a great sense of self worth.
The outside catering has proved to be a huge success. We regularly take bookings from large corporate conferences, to weddings, and festivals. Most notable for us is the Edinburgh Mela, Scotland's biggest and best festival of world music and dance. We have provided catering to them every year since Punjabi Junction was founded, and it is a real honour for us to be a part of such a
culturally aware festival. Although fundamentally the basis of our menu is Punjabi cuisine, for outside catering we also offer European dishes. Curry Friday at Punjabi Junction offers our amazing curry delivery service to office workers in the city who are looking to end their working week with a punch!
25th July 2013 our Social Enterprise Cafe, previously known as Punjab'n De Rasoi was re-launched with new branding and a new name – Punjabi Junction! The layout was changed to maximise seating and to facilitate good customer service, we've got a great mural on the wall showing the spice trail of India and the spices we use in our cooking. We had steadily been gaining momentum with the various services we offered and seen an increase in the amount of visitors we were getting into the café. The café was styled to recreate the feeling of an old Indian Train. That along with the new name 'Punjabi Junction' has helped to earn our place as a respected and authentic business within the community.
Café Opening Hours:
Monday : 12pm – 17.30 (Cookery Classes 6pm – 8pm)
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Anger Management
"Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." – Dr. David Banner
The other day I was driving. I pulled up to a stop light. It didn't take long to notice the person in the car next to me. He was alone but talking so loudly I could hear the faint sounds of his voice through his window and mine. I thought at first he was singing. But the tone was clearly not something musical. This guy was mad! He flailed his arms around, beat on the steering wheel and made symbolic gestures to no one in particular.
From where I sat it was pretty funny.
We've all been there. Someone pushes us so hard we feel like we're going to explode! There's only a handful of ways to deal with this kind of frustration. While firearms and napalm may sound satisfying they leave a terrible mess, not to mention the unpleasant social, legal and moral issues. Is it really possible to learn anger management?
Let's narrow our focus. Anger isn't really the problem. It's the symptom. You've heard people say, "I got so mad I lost control." It may have been you. That confession reveals the truth. Anger is one natural expression of a lack of self control.
We get angry for three reasons.
- Unsatisfied Needs
- Unmet Expectations
- Unrighteous Actions
We use these three reasons as an excuse to Hulk-out on people, fly off the handle and completely lose control. We let anger wash over us and give in to it's unbridled lust for justice, revenge or satisfaction. Anger management isn't about figuring out how to stay calm, cool and collected. Anger management is about learning self control.
Scripture teaches there's an appropriate time and appropriate way to be angry. When we lose control, we lose an effective tool for dealing with certain unrighteous acts. There's nothing more frightening than righteous anger, deliberately applied to an injustice in the world. It's Liam Neesan's calm but menacing voice on the other end of the phone as his daughter is being kidnapped in the movie Taken, "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If it's money, I haven't got any, but what I do have is a particular set of skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. So, you can let her go right now and that'll be the end of it. Otherwise, I will hunt you down. I will find you. And I will kill you."
Righteous anger applied. I can't think of anything quit so persuasive or quite so frightening. But we don't typically use anger. We allow anger to use us.
The principles that help us learn self control are not complicated, but they are often hard to practice. We know they aren't complicated because they sound so cliche. But, the fact that something is simple doesn't make it easy to apply. Here they are in a nutshell.
- Pray – when I can't control me or someone else, I can always talk to the one who can.
- Decide Beforehand – Make a list based on Scripture. What's worth the time, effort and risk of your anger? If it's not on the list, don't waste the energy.
- Persistent Practice – Musicians practice in order to make beautiful music. Practice is messy. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't. With every rehearsal they refine their notes and rhythms till the song that comes out is the one they intend and the one you're willing to pay to hear over and over again. Self control works this way. PRACTICE. You may not always get it right, but you can make it better. You can refine your response, prepare your heart and mind and place yourself in a position where self control comes more easily this time than the time before.
Ephesians 4:26, 31-32 says,
"…don't sin by letting anger control you." Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil…Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you." (NLT)
Don't let anger define you. Learn self control and master the anger within.


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Hardstone marquetry is a long-standing local tradition. The refined technique of inlay, which the Persian and Mughal chroniclers refer to as parchîn kârî, and which was brought to an almost unbelievable peak of excellence by the imperial stoneworkers during the reign of Shah Jahan, consisted of setting in marble or sandstone thin sections of hard or semi-hard stones that had been cut with the greatest of care and fashioned in the shape of tendrils and floral arabesques. The Frenchman François Bernier , who lived in India between 1656 and 1668, describes the mausoleum built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658) for his wife Mumtâz Mahal, in a letter dated 1663 to Monsieur de La Mothe Le Vayer: he speaks with great enthusiasm of the mausoleums perfect architecture and of its opulent interior decoration, floral motifs in white marble inlaid with jade, jasper and other sorts of precious stones.
The hardstones used in the decoration of the Taj Mahal, as well as in palaces and imperial buildings all over India and in the surrounding regions, included yellow amber from Burma, lapis-lazuli from Afghanistan, nephrite from Chinese Turkestan, and carnelian, agate, amethyst, jasper, green beryl, chalcedony, onyx and coral from the different regions of the huge Indian sub-continent.
At the Mughal court precious and semi-precious stones were also used to highlight imperial tableware, writing desks, mirrors, huqqa, weapons, royal saddles and even gold and silver gem-studded thrones. Rock-crystal and jade, hardstones which could only be worked with diamond dust, were particularly appreciated at the Mughal court. Objects fashioned in the second half of the seventeenth century by Mughal ateliers or karkhâna from jade or to be more precise from the nephrite and jadeite imported from Kashgar and from Khotan such as boxes and pen boxes, huqqa stands and mouthpieces, dagger hilts and archers thumb rings, bowls and cups, are particularly remarkable for their delicate inlays of precious stones, predominantly emeralds, diamonds, rubies and spinels, set in gold and forming stylized floral motifs. Jade was thought to contain talismanic virtues such as the power of prolonging life and indeed even that of ensuring immortality; it was also considered to favor success on the battlefield hence its name of stone of victory. It was therefore considered the most appropriate material for the manufacture of ornate arms symbolizing victory. The hilts of these ornate weapons which were only used for ceremonial purposes were often carved in the shape of the head of a horse, a ram, an antelope, a lion or a falcon, always with a quite remarkable and moving expressivity. This repertoire of animal motifs is known to have existed as early as the second half of the reign of Jahangir, and became particularly important under the emperor Shah Jahan.
Ivory carving was an important craft in ancient India. It was to be equally appreciated at the Mughal court, where it was used in the making and ornamentation of chests and caskets, as well as dagger hilts, flasks and powder horns. The latter were given a lively, zoomorphic décor, in which different birds and animals were intermingled elephants, lions, monkeys, buffaloes, rams, antelopes and hares, as well as composite and imaginary animals. Hunt scenes predominate in these exuberant animal scenes, derived from the iconographic repertoire of Mughal miniatures. Similar scenes also appear in the décor of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Mughal carpets. Some of the ivory powder horns were clearly gilded and embellished with colors, and the eyes of the animals were occasionally encrusted with amber and precious or semi-precious stones.
The floral and plant motifs predominate in the decorative repertoire of Mughal India. The combination of the naturalistic yet subtly stylized treatment of Mughal flowers, together with their balanced and symmetrical arrangement, is emblematic of Mughal taste in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the floral motif became a leitmotiv that permeated all the arts of the court (textiles and decorative arts, arts of the book) and even architecture. This fascination with the floral motif can be traced back to the reign of the Emperor Jahangir. It originated during a journey made by Jahangir in 1620 to Kashmir, a country where the emperor was enchanted by the variety and profusion of the flowers which grew there, and which he was subsequently wont to describe as a garden where spring reigns eternally. During this trip the monarch was accompanied by one of the great masters of the imperial atelier of painting, the animal painter Ustâd Mansûr Nâdir alAsr, who, at the request of the sovereign, executed more than a hundred flower studies, of which only three precious examples still survive. This poetic delight in the exuberant blossoming flowers of Kashmir was reinforced by the discovery of European herbals brought to the Mughal court by Jesuit missionaries and agents of the East India Company.
The herbals were to exert considerable influence on Mughal flower painting, on the precision with which they were drawn, on the extreme care taken with the representation of botanical details, and on the presence of butterflies and dragonflies fluttering above the corollas and leaves, which Mughal artists, who were familiar with Persian works, often replaced with small meandrous-shaped Chinese clouds (tchi), which were considered in China to be the vehicles of the gods, and which became a decorative motif in Persian art. As so pertinently noted by M. L. Swietochowski, the regular arrangement of flowers and bouquets in the margins of Mughal miniatures is reminiscent of the ornamentation of a number of Books of Hours from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and perhaps even more so of the borders of Flemish engravings on religious subjects.


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Some physicians prescribe metformin for women with PCOS, not just those with fertility problems. Some women resume regular menstrual cycles on metformin, but so far only one long-term study has been done, and it showed that the male-hormone symptoms didn't get better (someone with severe male hormone problems would need an anti-androgen as well). Health care professionals are undecided on the issue of using insulin-sensitizers in PCOS patients not attempting conception.
If prescribed an insulin sensitizer, be sure to inform your health care professional of all other medications you take, including over-the-counter medicines, to prevent drug interactions.
If you are among the 7 to 8 percent of women with PCOS who already have type II diabetes, metformin is a good therapeutic option.
Another available option for women who fail to ovulate with clomiphene or metformin therapy, or who are unwilling/unable to use gonadotropins (or can't afford to use them), is a surgical procedure known as laparoscopic ovarian drilling. The technique employs a laser fiber or electrosurgical needle to puncture each ovary four to 20 times. This treatment results in a dramatic lowering of male hormones within days. Over a dozen studies have shown that up to 80 percent of women with PCOS will benefit from such treatment. Many who failed to ovulate with clomiphene or metformin therapy will respond when re-challenged with these medications after ovarian drilling. The success rates for laparoscopic ovarian drilling appear to be better for patients at or near their ideal body weight, as opposed to those with obesity. Interestingly, women in these studies who are smokers rarely responded to the drilling procedure. Side effects are rare, but may result in adhesion formation or the general complications of any surgical procedure.
PCOS is associated with insulin resistance and diabetes, but not all women who have PCOS are insulin-resistant or diabetic. If you have PCOS, you should also be evaluated for diabetes with both a fasting glucose test and a glucose challenge test with insulin levels. The fasting glucose test is the standard, but that test alone misses about half the women with concomitant elevated insulin levels with PCOS who have diabetes or insulin resistance.
Long-term non-medical treatment is geared toward modifying your risk factors for health problems that often are associated with PCOS, including diabetes, uncontrollable weight gain and heart disease. A healthy low-sugar diet and an exercise program to stabilize body weight can reduce the risk.
You can take care of some problems associated with PCOS without medications. Excess hair can be removed by shaving, tweezing, waxing or using depilatory creams, or by electrolysis or laser techniques administered by a trained professional. Since lasers work by attacking a skin pigment, they should be used with caution by darker skinned women.
If you are overweight and have PCOS, weight loss is recommended. Losing weight can lower levels of androgens and insulin, thereby reducing your risk of developing insulin resistance and diabetes. One study found that when obese women lose even seven percent of body weight, they cut androgen levels significantly and improve menstrual regularity.
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HOUSE OF V Fall/Winter 2014
Taking inspiration from nature's own master of mixology, the HOUSE OF V Fall Winter 2014 collection strives to emulate the harmony of mixture in marble with contrasting materials, patterns and surfaces.
This season features tailored pieces that combine the soft and hard, the matte and lustrous, the monochrome and patterned. Classic coats, jumpers and shift dresses are reinvented with fitted drop shoulders, angular sleeves and square necklines to give modern silhouettes.
Sleek solid shapes are punctuated with artful pleats and occasional fur accents. Various checkers and plaids are incorporated into the overall dark palette, using geometry as the basis for pattern play.


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Immigrant Families Host Prayer & Protest at ICE
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Two wins in succession; are we on a role, to make it three? Maybe we ought to be, but are we? I have some doubts.
I'm told that the QPR win was an excellent performance. We followed it by beating the bottom team, but with a pretty dreary performance. I think Bruce made a big mistake, which may have consequences against Ipswich. The mistake was to play the same team, when he could easily have freshened it up with not too much risk. There were players on the bench who could have livened it up, and achieved a much better performance. It was only Sunderland after all. As it was, some players were pretty exhausted; apart from anything else, that's when injuries occur.
If he'd done that, he could have reverted to his favourite 11 for the Ipswich game, with the more vulnerable members suitably refreshed. As it is, if he plays the same team, as I think he will, we could have too many jaded players on the pitch. Against Ipswich that could be fatal; at our best we ought to win comfortably, less than that and they're good enough to get a result.
He might of course make changes for this one. I think that would be good. We need something different up front, maybe Jack; at the moment we're relying on Adomah, maybe too much. Maybe it's time to give Whelan a rest and play Jedinak. He could even be bold and play De Laet or Lansbury. We have players who ought to be used more; his favourite 11 isn't that good enough to be played every week whatever.
Winning on Saturday would give a big boost to our progress. We have some difficult matches coming up and we do need some momentum.
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I think Jedinak will play, I'd like to see the young lad get a full game Doyle Hayes and a run out at some time for O'Hare. Grealish must be pushing for a start as well.
But as long as they are honest and tell the boss the truth, if his favs are ready let them play :-)
Can the Blues get a result against Sheff U to help us?
Cardiff have a tough one at Forest, while Wolves should win again.
I'm looking up, not down!!!
I too worry about Bruces selections, its back to MoN days of favourites chosen to play whatever.
There is no reason why we shouldn't win this game but we do need to rest a couple of players, its a game to give one of the kids his chance and bring some energy to the game.
I'll still go for a win though as its a very important time for us to maintain this run.
Bruce said today that the way the players played against QPR there was no way he was going to tell any of them that they weren't going to play against Sunderland. Also said that if a player was dropped through injury they were going to have to wait for a slot to get back in. Think he misses the point.
Kodjia out for an operation, if we stay in contention, I think Bruce deserves a pat on the back. Been unlucky with injuries, but we are still near the top.
Got to pick up a striker somewhere soon.
Same team again except Jedinak in at centre back for Samba.
Another win. Uncle Albert is a superstar!
Come on City and Forest.
Good win. When did we last do three on the trot? This should do a lot for morale, and boost that winning mentality.
Davis and Jedinak injured, but at least we have options to get around that.
Albert the Greatest!
Blues 1-0 up at half time, come on don't let us down LOL!!


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How to... Eat Cake
Cakes are the food equivalent of alcohol. They give you the same lovely, warm feeling and pretty much everyone likes an occasional tipple/nibble. They're also both rich in calories, and giving up booze and cake is halfway towards a thinner, and immeasurably sadder life.
Fairy cakes are the shorts of the cake world. A little butter icing fairy cake should be consumed in the same way as a tequila slammer. A little bit of fiddling about and polite conversation and then, woof, down in one. Serious cakers can put down eight on the trot. The icing on the cake for cakes is icing. Icing can be eaten with the cake or before or after the cake. Either way, it's a meal in itself, hence the popularity of the iced bun, which is a way of mainlining icing.
One of the most ridiculous phrases in the English language is someone "who wants to have their cake and eat it". A much more useful phrase would be someone who "had their cake but didn't want to eat it", thus implying some kind of mental problem.
The wonderful thing about cakes is that they are absurdly easy to make. Just follow the simple formula 44244284224 adding 44 in front for fancy foreign cakes. The cake-making process has a wonderful by-product, and that is the bowl. Licking the bowl is one of the few innocent pleasures left to children, and one that computer games have yet to simulate with any degree of authenticity. Self-raising flour is Viagra for cakes. As with other things, the more you worry about them, the less likely they are to rise. And if you inspect them halfway through, they're bound to collapse.
Your favourite cakes say a lot about you as a person. Victoria sponge fanciers are likely to be simple, uncomplicated souls with a predilection for collecting china figurines. Date and walnut fans tend to be rather more complex, with a tendency towards environmental activism. Lemon drizzles attract the emotionally constipated. Coffee cakes are for passionate people with a more sensual nature, while madeira fans tend to have few friends and skin problems.
A sliver of cake is a slice between 5.5 degrees and 10.5 degrees and gives the message that you're actually not a big fan of black forest gateau. Technically, slices go up to only 179.5 degrees. Any wider and you risk being accused of "taking half the bloody cake". Of course, if it's your cake and there's no one else around, then slices can go up to 359.5 degrees. Or you can treat the whole thing like a giant fairy cake and get it down in one.
Reproduced with thanks to Guy Browning
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Romney has been dogged by the issue for much of the last two years as his potential Republican opponents have been only too willing to point out the similarities between the health care law that Romney signed as governor and the one President Obama pushed nationally last year.
For Romney then, this speech amounts to a chance to take on that criticism once and for all and, his political team hopes,begin shifting health care debate to President Obama's plan and why it's wrong for the country.
"He's going out early and will be on offense when it comes to repealing Obamacare," said one Romney aide to speak candidly about the strategy behind the speech.
What Romney won't do, according to aides, is apologize for signing the health care law in Massachusetts.
Instead, he will, in essence, double down on the argument he has made about the Massachusetts plan for the past 18 months or so — that it was the right decision for that state at that particularly time and was never meant as a national model.
Some GOP strategists are skeptical that anything short of a full apology will solve Romney's political problems on the issue, however.
"He needs to say 'It was a mistake. We had good intentions, but it didn't work,'" said one Republican consultant not aligned with any candidate in the 2012 presidential race. "He should have done that a long time ago."
Apologies, of course, have a mixed record in presidential politics. Former North Carolina senator John Edwards publicly apologized for his vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq but still came up short in his quest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Then Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) chose not to apologize for that same vote during the race and, like Edwards, came up short against Barack Obama — although by the end of that primary race Iraq was barely a topic of conversation.
(It is a worthy argument, however, as to whether her Iraq vote provided Obama with an opening to run that he might not have otherwise had.)
Already in the 2012 Republican presidential race apologies are cropping up.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has issued a mea culpa for his past support of cap and trade energy legislation; "I've said I was wrong. It was a mistake, and I'm sorry," Pawlenty said at last week's Republican presidential debate.
And, former House Speaker Newt Gingric h has issued an apology — of sorts — about his at-times turbulent personal life. (He has been married three times.)
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Gingrich told Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody in an interview in March. "I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness."
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), who supported Romney in 2008, said Tuesday that he was brave for trying something new. "[H]e actually showed a lot of courage to say 'I'm going to get out there and try and see if this is going to work.'" she said. However, she added, he needs to "make sure that he says this is not going to national." Of course, Romney has already made that argument numerous times.
Expect Romney and his political team to cast his refusal to apologize for the Massachusetts health care law as an example of him taking a principled stand — refusing to walk away from a past position simply because it would be more politically expedient to do so.
That, of course, is an attempt to rebut the long-standing criticism of Romney as flip-flopper that took root during the 2008 campaign. The calculation seems to be that Romney would incur more political damage from backing down or apologizing on health care than he will for standing up for what he did in Massachusetts and trying to move the conversation beyond that law to a broader focus on Obama's national health care legislation.
"At the end of the day, the right thing to say is what he really believes," said Alex Castellanos, who advised Romney during the 2008 campaign but is not affiliated with him this time around. "He should say that and let the chips fall where they may."
Will it work?
Much of that depends on Romney's performance on Thursday.
Remember that Obama was in political triage mode when he made the decision to deliver a speech on race in the spring of 2008. The content of the speech — and the efficacy of Obama's delivery — managed to not only stop the bleeding for him on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright issue but also served to reinforce the idea that he was a potentially transformational figure in American politics.
Romney doesn't have the rhetorical gifts of Obama but will try to do much the same thing in his health care speech. The goal will be to not only put the Massachusetts health care law behind him but also to use it as a pivot point to talk from a point of strength about the wrong-headedness of Obama's approach on the national level.
It's a tall order but one that is essential to the winning calculus for Romney in the race.


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Disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Caleb Rogerson - it's been written so often, it sounds like his official title. Like "His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales".
Disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Caleb Rogerson sits opposite me in a booth in the Boston Markets diner by the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
A parade of patients - one of them still attached to his drip - shuffles in to buy coffee and cake.
It's a gently disquieting place, and Rogerson is vaguely unsettling company: he seems so ordinary, so banal, a saloon-bar larrikin with a tobacco laugh and a blunt edge to his jokes.
Rogerson served three years in Berrima Jail for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. He is alleged to have given armed robbers Neddy Smith and Graham "Abo" Henry the "green light" to terrorise Sydney in the 1980s, to have conspired with hit man Christopher Dale Flannery to murder undercover police officer Michael Drury, to have shot dead criminal Warren Lanfranchi in cold blood, and to have conspired to import heroin with the late Melbourne gangster Dennis Allen.
He has, however, put all that behind him, and is launching a new career on the after-schooners speakers' circuit.
He is touring the big pubs and leagues clubs with former footballers Mark Jackson and Warwick Capper in a spoken-word show billed The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
He has the heavy shoulders, bloated belly and thin waist of a fit man grown old. Rogerson answers every question put to him, and he holds my eyes with his, confident and credible, like the reliable witness he has proved not to be.
If there were crimes, Rogerson says, he did not commit them: it was all Neddy Smith. If there are bodies, he says, he does not know where they are buried.
So which one is he?
The good? The ugly?
"I'd have to be the bad, wouldn't I?" he says.
"Ha ha ha."
For much of this year, Jackson has been traipsing from bloodhouse to beer barn with former Melbourne gangster Mark "Chopper" Read. When Read announced that he wanted a break to have a child with his second wife, Jackson contacted Rogerson to see if he would take his place.
Rogerson had never met Jackson before they planned the tour. They were introduced by "somebody in the liquor industry".
"There's a lot of blokes I know in the industry," says Rogerson. "In my day, the cops supported the hotel industry pretty well. Like journalists. We kept certain pubs going. Back in those days, journos and detectives used to meet in a pub somewhere. You'd never meet at a Boston Markets."
I feel as though I have let him down, but it is only 9.15am.
Chopper has made a career out of claiming involvement in crimes he did not commit. What is Rogerson going to do? The opposite?
"Well, yes," he says, startlingly.
"I mean, I'll talk about all the things I've been involved in, and I'll go as far as I can legally go, you might say, and I'll leave it like that.
"I've got to think of myself.
Ha ha ha. And the government.
The government might get sued for billions if I broke down."
Rogerson will come on last in the show and will field questions.
"I suppose it's in case I make a mess of it and the crowd leave early."
Did he give the "green light" to Neddy Smith?
"The green light was invented by one of those guys on Channel Ten," he says. "I could give no one the green light because I was a mid-ranking detective sergeant. I worked with an inspector in charge and sergeants above me, and we followed the chain of command.
"It wasn't up to me to give anyone the green light. This was all in Ned's imagination. Ned's always had an incredibly fertile imagination - as he has come to find out himself in later life. He's pretty well convicted himself on some of these murders, talking, talking, talking shit."
Rogerson says he hopes to reveal the reality behind the fable of disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Caleb Rogerson. The myth, he says, grew up in the press, in Smith's autobiography, Neddy, and, most of all, in the 1995 ABC TV movie Blue Murder, in which Rogerson (played by Richard Roxburgh) is portrayed as a greedy, homicidal, alcoholic amoralist, a cop who is in every way worse than the criminals he protects then betrays.
However, this doesn't seem to be the misconception he is talking about.
"There's a myth about me: the 20-foot-tall man, the massive guy that used to smash down doors and could grab three or four buggers all at one time and throw them out of pubs," he says. "There's a lot of other attachments, of course, to it - and then there's the real me."
Who is? "Just a normal guy," he says. "I've got seven grandkids, two wonderful daughters.
I live a normal life in a normal residential area.
I like my neighbours.
I think my neighbours like me - I suppose, if they don't, they're not going to tell me. Ha ha ha."
He didn't murder Warren Lanfranchi then?
"As much as Blue Murder would like to infer that he was interfering with my drug-dealing operations, I didn't know the guy," he says. "Lanfranchi came up as a suspect in five bank robberies and the attempted murder of a police officer.
I found out Ned knew him and I said, 'I want him'.
"If I was going to murder him, why would I take 18 police with me and expect every one of them's going to be trustworthy over the next 20 years, and not confess that they were part of a conspiracy to murder someone?"
OK, did he conspire with Christopher "Rent-a-kill" Flannery to kill undercover cop Michael Drury, who survived a shot from an unknown assailant?
"Michael Drury's a failure," he says. "He made allegations about me. A jury would not accept what Drury said. They acquitted me.
"Some time later, with some more digging up, some more skulduggery, they used some more scurrilous evidence they obtained. I was charged again with conspiring to murder him - and, again, the jury acquitted me. And it was all on his evidence."
Who killed Flannery?
"I think he's there with Harold Holt. I think they're still swimming. They'd be about under the Antarctic now.
"I don't know. There're all sorts of suggestions. Flannery became a pest. We've had a lot of pests from Melbourne that've come up here and they haven't quite fitted in with the milieu and they tend to sort of disappear. People on the other side of the line decided they'd had enough of him - and bingo!
"But, again, I wasn't involved in that, neither. I was at home in bed that night. I've got a perfect alibi."
In May 1985, Rogerson deposited $110,000 in two Sydney bank accounts. The money was thought to be the proceeds of a heroin deal conducted with Melbourne gangster Dennis Allen.
Rogerson was convicted of supplying heroin, but the conviction was thrown out on appeal.
He was later convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, by misleading police as to the origins of that $110,000.
He was released from prison in December 1995.
Rogerson was a highly decorated police officer before he turned bad. He has been a hero and villain; now he seems poised to reinvent himself as a loveable rogue.
As we move to leave the cafe, the automatic door fails to open. Rogerson smiles tightly.
"In the myth, Roger Rogerson would have kicked those doors down."
There is no need. The two sheets of glass slide apart and disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Caleb Rogerson is back on the streets.
The three stooges also perform at Cronulla's Brass Monkey on Monday, Old Manly Boatshed on Tuesday, Rozelle's Bridge Hotel on Wednesday, St Marys Leagues Club on Thursday, and Bathurst's Carrington House on November 21. Tickets $20 at the door
($25 at the Brass Monkey)
Where Bondi Hotel, 178 Campbell Parade, Bondi
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Families have condemned standards of care at a Sussex home for elderly people as "beyond comprehension" after a coroner ruled that neglect led to the deaths of five elderly people.
In harrowing evidence during a five-week inquest, it was revealed that residents at Orchid View care home in Copthorne, West Sussex, were given wrong doses of medication, left soiled and unattended because of a lack of staff and suffered because of serious failures in the home's management.
Penelope Schofield, the West Sussex coroner, said those involved in the neglect at the now closed home should be ashamed as it was announced that a serious case review had been set up.
"There was institutionalised abuse throughout the home and it started, in my view, at a very early stage, and nobody did anything about it. This, to me, was from the top down. It was completely mismanaged and understaffed and failed to provide a safe environment for residents."
It was not cheap, with the residents paying £3,000 a month to stay there. But Schofield said it was disgraceful that the home was allowed to be run in the way it was for around two years.
The court heard that call bells were often not answered for long periods or could not be reached by elderly people living at the home, which was deemed "an accident waiting to happen".
Schofield also questioned why the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), gave Orchid View a "good" rating in 2010 – a year before it shut.
"I question how this could be the case and I question whether the inspection that did take place was fit for purpose," Schofield added.
In a statement Andrea Sutcliffe, the CQC's new chief inspector of adult social care, said: "I am shocked at the descriptions of the care received by residents at Orchid View in 2010 and 2011." Sutcliffe said she would oversee a "root-and-branch review" of the case and the regulator would be changing the way it ran inspections.
The coroner said it was a cause for concern that many people who worked at Orchid View were still working in the industry. This was echoed by Lisa Martin, the whistleblower who first informed police about the care home's failings. Speaking of her former colleagues, she said: "They shouldn't be allowed to work in the industry."
Martin said coming forward had been the right thing to do morally but had cost her personally as she had not been able to work for the last two years. She went to the police after being told by a nurse that they had found 28 drug errors from just one night shift.
The coroner said 19 residents at Orchid View suffered "sub-optimal" care. All of those residents died from natural causes, she ruled. But five of those died from natural causes "which had been contributed to by neglect", Schofield ruled. They were Wilfred Gardner, 85, Margaret Tucker, 77, Enid Trodden, 86, John Holmes, 85, and Jean Halfpenny, 77.
The inquest heard that Halfpenny was given an overdose of the blood-thinning drug warfarin while at Orchid View, which had failed to monitor and administer her medication properly.
Martin, who worked as an administrator at the home, said she was asked to shred forms after Halfpenny had to be admitted to hospital for bleeding.
The coroner heard that Meera Reed, an Orchid View manager, looked at the medication administration record (MAR) brought into the office by a nurse and said: "Shit, we can't send her to hospital with those. They will shut us down."
Blank MAR forms were filled out instead, and Martin said she was asked not to disclose the shredding of the original documents to anyone.
Reed denied asking anyone to dispose of the forms, but the coroner ruled that they had been shredded. Schofield also said she was satisfied Halfpenny was given too much warfarin at Orchid View.
Linzi Collings, Halfpenny's daughter, said the care home had failed to provide her mother with the dignity and compassion she deserved.
She said: "Whilst my sister and I are pleased with the thoroughness of the inquest and we are grateful to the coroner for investigating, the horrific details that have emerged about Orchid View are beyond comprehension.
"How the corporate failings of Southern Cross could create these events and how such terrible standards could go unnoticed by the authorities for so long has left us baffled."
Orchid View, which was run by Southern Cross, was closed down in late 2011 after an investigation by the CQC found it had failed to meet eight of its essential quality and safety standards.
In the same year, Sussex police launched an investigation into alleged neglect at the home, in conjunction with the NHS, West Sussex county council, the CQC and Schofield.
Five people were arrested, including some on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence in relation to Halfpenny's death, but insufficient evidence existed to support a prosecution and the case was passed to the coroner.
The multimillion-pound home was said to have had a "five-star" feel when it opened in September 2009. Its appearance "seduced" families into believing it was well-run.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "The lack of care and concern shown towards these care residents was truly appalling. We have made it clear that there must be a sharper focus on taking tougher action when things go wrong and holding those responsible to account.
"Confidence in the regulation regime has been shaken, but we have now turned a corner. We welcome Andrea Sutcliffe's – the new chief inspector for social care – commitment to protecting vulnerable people from abuse and neglect, and to ensuring they receive better care.
"We need to make sure that providers and staff are always meeting the basic requirements for care residents so they are protected from harm, treated with dignity and respect, involved in their care, and given the chance to live a fulfilling life.
"We need to make sure everything possible is done to protect people from poor care wherever it might take place."


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It's nothing new, but really do I have to. Sitting here for the first time with no cigarette at the computer. Watching the clock tick down, to when the little cafe opens so I can buy a packet.
Ran Out of Cigarettes #1 – Estimate time lasted before a cigarette… approximately 5 hours and that included sleeping.
Really should go back to patches but the lovely vivid dreaming really isn't for me right now.
After 20 years of being a smoker (wow times flies when you are having fun) its really hard to bid them farewell, because I honestly enjoy smoking. One place more than most will be at my computer…its been a long part of my established working life.
In order to delay the time since I ran out of cigarettes…. having a coffee.. they say sip water but it is too cold this morning. But I did add a dash of rum choc liqueur … that will delay driving even longer. Maybe I will make it to 6 hours.


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Blogging is not easy, no matter what people tell you. You are subjected to a lot of different things and some are easier to get thru then others. Whether it be a cd, a movie or even a book no one wants to go into something to hate it, or even dislike it. We want to go into something to be a fan to love something. Films like Satanic Panic make this virtually impossible to write positively about it. I know a lot goes into making any form of entertainment and no one wants to hear that their work is bad. There is no way one person involved with this film watched it afterward and was happy with it, or even ready to go on record and say they could recommend people to watch it. This is another one of those indie gems that is supposedly based on true events off a real situation that did happen. Though, as the film started off it feels that they had no issue trying to kill that true story theory within seconds. They did not even try to make the events seem realistic; they took it more of a reason to create this fucking joke. Now, if they retaliate and tell me it is truly based on true life victims, I feel bad for the victims or their families who have to watch this and see what this film portrays them as.
This is based off a realistic craze that took place in the late 70's and went thru the 80's, when ten year old twins Toby and Cindy are abducted by satanic cult members. The story will have us believe that Cindy gets away and Toby was never found. Now 25 years later, a group of friends (why is it always a group of friends this stuff happens to) go on this bonding canoe trip and find themselves in some shit with the same satanic cult. I vaguely remember the Satanic Panic fear, but I just wish that a film would have come along that took this more serious. They have this scene that we witness a sacrifice of a child on a makeshift altar that really is utterly ridiculous. This film feels disjointed that the director lost his focus and was not sure what he was shooting for. At times it seems like it is a documentary style film from yesteryear and then he makes it a modern day slasher in the backwoods. This film tries to be everything to everyone, but fails to be anything to me. The acting in this film is rough to sit thru, it felt like an open mic night at the soup kitchen. This film for its subject matter felt so safe, like the director knew his budget restraints and did not want to give fans more of what they like these films for, but want to give them more of that huge and very diverse cast that to tell the truth, I would have loved this film to give us less attempts at acting and more attempts at horror.
With indie horror, you have to be more creative than this film. I have seen films made for less than 30.00 that blew my mind and I thought were very incredible and thought provoking. So, to blame any kind of budget or time restraints is not a valid argument. You have to eventually question your own talent and what you can create. Maybe horror is not your calling, the team has some good directing chops and the camera work while at times seemed choppy was ok to an extent. I am trying to think of a positive.
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...who happened to be incredible at this past summer's Newport Folk Fest.
So you know we're partial to this particular Fest. We might have something of a history with this one. And you can, too, but only if you're able to grab a ticket. (And be warned, they've been selling out within a day... except for Friday. So...)
Again, reminder: This Wed, Nov. 30th. 10 am Eastern Time. Click this kind of link to get to the Folk Fest site. And again, last July weekend in 2017: 28th-30th (Fri-Sun).
It's gonna be good, and more importantly, sold out. On your marks, get set...


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Campbell looks Tigers-bound
Hull have had a bid accepted for striker Fraizer Campbell accepted by Manchester United, the club have confirmed on their website.
The 21-year-old enjoyed a successful loan spell at the KC Stadium in the 2007-08 season when he scored 15 goals in 32 starts to help the Tigers into the Barclays Premier League.
Despite Hull's desire to keep Campbell for their first season in the top flight he went on loan to Tottenham for almost the entire campaign. However, they have had a bid - reported to be £6million - accepted by the Premier League champions and the east Yorkshire club have been given permission to open talks with Campbell.


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Hello and welcome to another monthly update on the DGI For The DIY portfolio, I hope you all are having a happy spring.
Considering we had snow on the ground until late April, my family was busy in May enjoying every minute we could of the warm weather.
Bike rides, T-ball, fishing, hiking, family vacations…we pretty much tried them all.
With all that activity, investments and blogging have once again been put on the back-burner, but I'm totally fine with that.
Dividends are great and all, but they are no comparison to the reward of hearing the excitement in your son's voice as he lands his first sunfish. And then hearing equal excitement as he lands a half-dozen more.
He thought Mt. Rushmore was pretty great too, and he got his money's worth out of the $3 binoculars his mom found for him at Target.


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"Meltdown", a brand new song from Dutch rockers The Gathering is now available for streaming. Check it out below. The song comes off the band's upcoming new album entitled Disclosure, which has been tentatively penned in for a September 12th release.
All I can really say about Meltdown is that I really miss Anneke van Giersbergen. No one can replace her. She is an amazing vocalist. While this song is not half bad, it is way too repetitive.