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Chernobyl had its heroes too. If you've never heard the stories of Anatoly Grishchenko, Alexei Ananenko, and Vladimir Shevchenko, follow the links. They knew what they were in for if they went in, and what everyone else was in for if they didn't.
Immense courage, needless to say.
Speaking tearfully through an interpreter by phone, the mother of a 32-year-old worker said: "My son and his colleagues have discussed it at length and they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation.
"He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long-term."…
She could not confirm if her son or other workers were already suffering from radiation sickness. But she added: "They have concluded between themselves that it is inevitable some of them may die within weeks or months. They know it is impossible for them not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation."…
"My son has been sleeping on a desk because he is afraid to lie on the floor. But they say high radioactivity is everywhere and I think this will not save him," said the mother of the worker who spoke to Fox News.
As strange as it may sound, I've imagined them at work 24/7 since the crisis began, never thinking how they must be eating and sleeping inside the hot zone. CNN sheds some light on that:
They sleep anywhere they can find open space — in conference rooms, corridors, even stairwells. They have one blanket, no pillows and a leaded mat intended to keep radiation at bay.
They eat only two meals each day — a carefully rationed breakfast of 30 crackers and vegetable juice and for dinner, a ready-to-eat meal or something out of a can.They clean themselves with wet wipes, since the supply of fresh water is short…
"My parents were washed away by the tsunami, and I still don't know where they are," one worker wrote in an e-mail that was verified as authentic by a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which runs the Fukushima plant.
"Crying is useless," said another e-mail. "If we're in hell now, all we can do is crawl up towards heaven."
The area in the exclusion zone around the plant is so radioactive that up to 1,000 people killed in the quake and resulting tsunami are still lying out in the open, their bodies unretrieved because they're simply too toxic to handle. Burning them would release more radiation into the air; burying them could contaminate the soil. If/when the Fukushima Fifty start to die, I assume they'll be buried right there on the grounds of the plant where it's already contaminated. Maybe that's what they'll do with the other bodies too.
There's a last-ditch plan in place to try to save the workers once they're stricken with cancer:
Japanese authorities are considering plans to collect and freeze cells from engineers and water cannon operators at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in case they are exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
The proposal has been drawn up as a precautionary measure that could potentially save the lives of workers if they receive high doses of radiation while battling to bring the damaged nuclear reactors under control…
The procedure requires workers to take a drug for several days that causes their bone marrow to release stem cells into the blood. They are then hooked up to a machine through which their blood is passed and filtered to extract the stem cells.
The procedure is already used to treat cancer patients whose bone marrow is destroyed by chemo- or radiotherapy.
Every time I read about the Fukushima Fifty lately, I think of "Ikiru." If you've never seen it, surf on over to Netflix right this instant. Here's Shevchenko's final film, a rare historical document of Chernobyl inside the hottest of hot zones. Note the part where he climbed up onto a roof next to the reactor and filmed down into it. That's apparently where he received his own fatal dose.
Update: Speaking of which, Japan is now considering a Chernobyl solution to its own problem — burying the entire plant in concrete to try to contain the reactors and snuff further radiation releases as best they can. According to a British nuclear expert, it could take … 100 years before the fuel rods have completely cooled and can be removed from the plant.


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The first challenge was a great success! Sorry for the delay on this challenge...it crept up on me. I thought we would go back to a theme that Tony used for a contest years ago. Chess, that is. Build anything chess related. It can be a full set, one side, just the board, or just one piece. As long as it involves chess in some way, it counts.
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Thank you Helen Bachrach for sharing your mother's Shavuot table with The Jewish Hostess readers. Her story is so inspiring and I would really love to sit at her table and hear it directly from her. I really enjoyed reading about the detail of this beautiful table. How wonderful that your mother was able to transform sad childhood memories into a meaningful, inspiring, and gorgeous Shavuot table!
Several years ago I viewed a documentary entitled "Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust" that sounds so similar to her story, I hope you don't mind that I linked to a clip of it above. Its about a man who took his children to Poland to thank the non-Jews that hid their grandfather during the holocaust. I highly recommend everyone buy a copy of the film from Amazon and show it to their kids and grandkids!
To all of my Jewish Hostesses- enjoy Mrs. Bryn's holiday table! Marlene
"This table was set for the holiday of Shavuot, by my mother, Felicia Bryn, from Sunny Isles Florida. My mother was a hidden child during the holocaust. She came to Israel in the 1950's. At that time, she had very little connection to Judaism; she felt very lonely and missed Poland terribly. Gradually my mother started to make friends who invited her for Shabbat and Yom Tov. My mother was captivated by the beautiful Yom Tov and Shabbat tables she saw in different homes. This positive exposure to beauty and Jewish observance instilled in her a desire to create that type of Jewish life in her own home. She met and married my father in Israel. He was a Cantor in the United States and later became a Rabbi. As a Rebbetzin, my mother has had many opportunities to entertain in her home. She starts thinking about her Yom Tov and Shabbat table weeks in advance. The attached picture shows my mom's Shavuot table covered with Lenox butterfly patterned dishes on glass chargers. The crystal glass goblets come from Poland. My mother has always felt a sense of Hakarat Hatov for the people who saved her during the war and always finds a way to incorporate her crystal from Poland into her Shabbat and Yom Tov table. After the war, she visited them in Poland many times, even during the communist era. On these visits, my mother would collect colored glass goblets of all types and sizes. My mother's centerpiece consists of two cake stands with a pineapple on top. The bottom cake stand is porcelain. She does not remember where she picked it up. The second cake stand is by Atlas. The pattern is 22 karat gold. My mother picked up the pineapple at Bed Bath and Beyond. She thought the pineapple was whimsical and would add something different to the usual Yom Tov center piece. The bottom cake stand rests on a gold embroidered cloth. The porcelain cake stand is mostly red and white, but the gold trim on the edge picks up on the gold embroidery. The gold on the second cake stand really highlights the gold embroidery on the cloth. The pineapple is red and gold which highlights the entire centerpiece. My mother used gold flatware to tie the rest of the table into the center piece. The tradition on Shavuot is to decorate the house and synagogue with greenery and flowers. One of the reasons given for the custom is as a remembrance of Har Sinai which grew beautiful flowers and greenery when Hashem gave the Jewish people the Torah. My mother expanded on this theme by using flowered napkin holders and filling vases in her home with a variety of greenery picked up from a florist. On Shavuot my mother brings beauty into her home to celebrate the beautiful gift of the Torah to the Jewish People. Please checkout her autobiography on Amazon.com. www.amazon.com/Never-Forget-Lie-Felicia-Bryn/dp/1412070198 "
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In 2013, 30 per cent of the new companies came from developed and developing economies of Asia, 29 per cent from Europe and Americas and the remaining from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East, Jafza said in a statement.
A large number of these companies are market leaders in their respective fields and some of them are Global Fortune 500 enterprises. In terms of countries, the largest number of foreign investors came from India, the statement added.
According to Jafza, the flagship Free Zone operation of Economic Zones World (EZW), the trend reinforces Jafza's growing stature as a dynamic hub and a business facilitator for multinationals.
Jafza had, in 2013, registered the highest growth in the number of new joiners in the last six years. 613 multinationals joined the Free Zone in 2013.
The Free Zone has seen an equally robust upswing in its revenues as well as gross earnings in the year. In 2013, Free Zone's revenues increased by 7 per cent while EBITDA grew by 12 per cent.
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Jafza plays a key role in Dubai and the UAE's economic development and growth. The Free Zone accounts for more than a half of Dubai's non-oil exports and a quarter of the Emirate's total non-oil trade. Jafza contributes 21 per cent to the Emirate's GDP year-on-year.
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* Trial to start in early 2013, enroll 160 patients
* Focus on patients with gene mutations that put them atrisk early
* Will test new theory on preventing Alzheimer's
(Adds comment from lead researcher, neurologist; updates stockprice)
By Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Experimental Alzheimer's drugsfrom Roche Holding AG and Eli Lilly & Co havebeen selected for a high-profile clinical trial to test whetherit is possible to prevent the brain-wasting disease fromdeveloping in at-risk patients.
The trial, expected to start early next year, will enroll160 patients worldwide with inherited gene mutations thattypically lead to Alzheimer's symptoms when they are as young asin their 30s, Washington University in St. Louis said onWednesday in announcing the drugs' selection.
Drug studies over the past decade have tried and failed toslow progression of Alzheimer's among patients who already havedementia. The hope is that success in arresting symptoms inpatients who are so highly predisposed to develop the diseasewill show the way to preventing Alzheimer's in a much widerpopulation.
"We're going in with three different drugs, with threedifferent mechanisms of action, to find out which works best,"said Dr. Randall Bateman, a neurologist at the WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine who will lead the trial.
Bateman, in a telephone interview, said about half thepatients in the trial will have no symptoms at all when thestudy begins, while the rest will have very mild symptoms.
Dr. James Galvin, a neurologist at New York UniversityLangone Medical Center, said such a prevention trial involvingpeople at high genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease would requirerelatively few patients and could produce results within a fewyears.
"Each family has a genetic mutation with a defined age ofonset of disease, so you can start giving the drug a certainnumber of years before the predicted onset," Gavin said. "Ifthey don't get the diseease by then, you've prevented it ordelayed it."
By contrast, he said a prevention trial in the generalpopulation might need to last 20 years or longer "because youwouldn't know who will get the disease or be able to predictwhen."
As many as 5 million people in the United States and 36million globally are believed to have Alzheimer's, the mostcommon form of dementia. The U.S. figure for people 65 or oldermay triple by 2050 as the population ages, according to theAlzheimer's Association.
The drugs chosen for the study are Roche's gantenerumab andLilly's solanezumab. Also under consideration is a secondexperimental Lilly drug called a beta-secretase inhibitor,designed to reduce the beta amyloid proteins produced by thebody and slow the accumulation of toxic brain plaques linked toAlzheimer's.
An experimental treatment from Pfizer Inc andJohnson & Johnson , called bapineuzumab, did not make thecut after data from two large trials presented over the summershowed it failed to help patients with mild to moderatesymptoms.
Researchers in August said Lilly's solanezumab also failedto prevent decline in cognitive and physical function amongpatients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's in two largelate-stage studies. The drug, a monoclonal antibody similar tobapineuzumab, attacks beta amyloid.
But hopes for solanezumab were revived on Monday when Lillysaid an analysis of pooled data from the two studies showedsolanezumab led to a 34 percent reduction in memory decline forpatients with mild symptoms over a period of 18 months. It saidthe change was statistically significant.
Wall Street analysts expect Lilly will seek marketingapproval from the drug, but will likely need to first complete alarge costly new trial among patients with mild symptoms to winover health regulators.
Roche began a late-stage study of gantenerumab in late 2010for patients who have yet to develop dementia, and expectsresults in 2015. The Swiss drugmaker has high hopes for the drugbecause previous brain scan tests have shown it can reduceamyloid plaques in the brain.
Shares of Lilly, which had gained more than 7 percent sinceits latest solanezumab data were unveiled on Monday, fell 3percent to close at $50.23 on Wednesday. Shares of Roche fell1.2 percent amid a 0.8 percent decline in the ARCAPharmaceutical Index of large U.S. and Europeandrugmakers.
The new prevention trial will be led by the DominantlyInherited Alzheimer's Network Trials Unit (DIAN TU) atWashington University in St Louis. The unit's work is supportedby the DIAN, a federally funded collaboration of Alzheimer'sresearch centers, the Alzheimer's Association and a consortiumof 10 drugmakers.
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When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone as a "revolutionary" device, he probably wasn't thinking of its effect on the Fourth Amendment. But a new paper by Adam Gershowitz, a professor at the South Texas College of Law, argues that unless courts or legislators make significant changes to the rules governing law enforcement searches, the increasing ubiquity of devices like Apple's übergadget will permit police to routinely gather massive amounts of citizens' sensitive personal data without a warrant.
The Fourth Amendment guarantees that Americans will not be subject to "unreasonable searches and seizures." Normally, this means police must show a judge that there is "probable cause" to believe a search will uncover evidence of a crime before tapping our phones or digging through our papers. But the courts have always recognized a variety of special circumstances under which a search may be reasonable even without a court warrant. One important such exception is for "search incident to arrest." This allows police to search the person and immediate vicinity of anyone being placed under arrest, to ensure that the arrestee can't destroy evidence or pull a concealed weapon.
The problem with this, argues Gershowitz, is that with the proliferation of iPhone-like devices, the officer digging through your coat pocket suddenly has access to gigabytes worth of potentially sensitive e-mail, videos, photographs, browsing histories, and other documents. If you're in the habit of keeping your passwords saved, they may even be able to reach bank statements, file servers, and that Nerve Personals account you opened "just for fun." Though the underlying rationale for searches incident to arrest is officer safety, courts have adopted a "bright line" rule permitting an arresting officer to search any object in a suspect's possession, such as a cigarette pack, even if it unlikely to conceal a miniature Glock. And since the Supreme Court has ruled that police have broad authority to arrest people for even trivial infractions, such as failure to wear a seat belt, the current rule gives law enforcement officers broad discretion to transform a routine traffic stop into a highly intrusive excavation of your digital life.
The thorny privacy questions posed by portable digital storage are already making headlines, as courts take up the question of whether border agents conducting routine searches need any special justification to go rummaging through a traveler's notebook computer. One judge has ruled that they do, writing that while "not physically intrusive as in the case of a strip or body cavity search, the search of one's private and valuable personal information stored on a hard drive or other electronic storage device can be just as much, if not more, of an intrusion into the dignity and privacy interests of a person." But most courts have taken the opposite view: If airport security can open up your laptop bag, then they're entitled to look through your laptop files as well.
As with many legal questions, of course, metaphors matter. If we think of a laptop or an iPhone as fundamentally like a backpack, or even a pager, then there's clear precedent suggesting that a border agent or an arresting officer can snoop through such devices, even in the absence of any individualized suspicion that they contain incriminating information. But like all metaphors, this one breaks down eventually. With the possible exception of Mary Poppins, most people did not previously carry the equivalent of whole libraries worth of archived information in their luggage. And since iPhones are networked, perhaps a closer analogy is to a backpack containing a wormhole that leads to your office or bedroom. The casual comparison with more traditional types of searches conceals the ways routine warrantless search of networked digital storage devices would shift the balance between law enforcement and privacy interests.
George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, who authored the Justice Department's manual on digital searches, considers a range of alternative metaphors in his Harvard Law Review article "Searches and Seizures in a Digital World." On the "container model," which would treat the iPhone as a tiny but capacious suitcase, there is only one threshold question: Does the officer have any right to examine the contents of the object, to pop the latch on the suitcase? But on "virtual file" or "exposure" models, each file that is opened, or each operation that reveals data contained in a storage device, can be considered a distinct "search." This matter because, as Kerr stressed when Ars contacted him by telephone, the ultimate legal standard for any search is still "reasonableness." The courts recognize that a pat down is not the same as a strip search, and that there will be many situations in which the former is reasonable, but not the latter. If judges begin to move away from the "container" metaphor, they may similarly be able to draw finer distinctions between simply picking up or switching on a device and doing an exhaustive survey of its contents.
Gershowtiz considers a range of possible distinctions courts or legislatures might draw. They could revamp the general rules governing searches incident to arrest, requiring that they hew more closely to their official purpose. So, for instance, police might be permitted to look through the text messages of a suspected drug dealer, but not those of a reckless driver or a loud drunk. Alternatively, the law could be changed in a more ad hoc way to distinguish search from seizure in the case of specific kinds of devices, allowing police to take a device away from an arrestee, but requiring a warrant to examine its contents.
Another option is to establish specific limitations on the kinds of operations officers may carry out on a particular device. Gershowitz offers the example of a a "five steps test," which would, in essence, allow searches but limit the number of buttons an officer could push. Still more constraining would be an "open application test," permitting police only to look at whatever program a suspect was using at the time of arrest. Additionally, courts could distinguish between searches of data contained on the device itself and data stored remotely that can be accessed by the device—though this line becomes fuzzy when the device is set to download remote data (such as e-mails) automatically whenever it is turned on. Kerr—who feels certain that courts will at the very least enforce a local/remote distinction—offers another possible test: Anything police can look at during the time required to carry out a routine arrest is fair game, but an exhaustive search back at the station house requires a warrant.
Until the rules have been hashed out, though, a word of caution to iPhone owners: Buckle your seat belt!


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According to Research in Motion (RIM) executives, all BlackBerry service has been restored following the largest network outage in that smartphone's history.
The outage started earlier this week in Europe and spread to North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America over the course through yesterday.
It appears that a failure at one of the company's messaging servers in Europe was what set off a domino effect that reportedly caused problems for millions of BlackBerry owners.
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"We've now restored full services," RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told reporters.
Some BlackBerry users may still see e-mails coming in slowly as the system recovers, he said.
The major outage frustrated customers on nearly every continent who were unable to send and receive e-mails and text messages this week. It also comes at a bad time for RIM, which is facing increased competition from Android and Apple smartphones.


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Ok, I apologize of tthe bat because I may have already posted this previously but my comp is screwy so I'm not sure. quick intro:
I graduated from the Universty of Texas in 98 with a B.S. in Zoology. I was working as a research assistant/associate for an Austin company called Ambion. I was riding my motorcycle when a lady ran a red light and hit me at 45mph. I was in a coma for 6 monhs then went to formal rehab for about 3-4 years. During my rehab, Ambion was bought and moved to California so I no longer had a job to return to. Because I had no mor insurancxe, the rehab facilitey said I was cured and let me go. I continued my rehap with some courses at UHCL.(Univ of Hou Clear Lake). I ended up with a like a 79gpa in Computational Statistics, Intro to Comp Prog, and JAVA 1. Beause my company was n Austin(a computer city) and I have experience in a RNA lab I wanted to get into bioinformatics. Any suggestions on what to do? I'm willing to go back to school. And I'm not too comfortable with my JAVA skills.
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Greg Berlanti (Arrow) and Julie Plec (Vampire Diaries) are teaming up to remake Tomorrow People... today. Centering around the world of mutants who come together to fight international crime, we suspect The CW's version will have a much more soap-operatic tone, given that Plec and Berlanti worked together on Dawson's Creek.
The CW has also ordered a pilot for the strange drama titled Blink. According to the The Hollywood Reporter the series follows the wild fantasies of a comatose father. A car accident renders the character unable to speak or move, but he's able to see and hear "all." The show will look inside this character's internal fantasies which coincide with the drama surrounding his family and friends. Sounds like it could be very much in the vein of the much-lamented Awake — fingers crossed.
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Cafe de Boston: A Boston Lunch Spot for Literally Everyone
Looking for a good lunch spot in the Financial District that will keep everyone happy, from your big group of friends or your coworkers? Make sure Cafe de Boston is on your radar. It's a big space with multiple stations, from salad station to prepared food buffet to other stations making pizza, pasta, crepes, sandwiches, and many more. There are desserts of all manners, coffee drinks, free wifi and power outlets at plenty of the seats in the cafe section!


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Writer Beware's Thumbs Down Agency List.
(NOTE: The list in its entirety used to be posted here, but we've found that it changes frequently enough, as agencies change their names or expand, that it quickly becomes obsolete. Rather than maintain an obsolete version here, or constantly update this post, I've posted the link above, which will take you directly to the list in its most current version on the Writer Beware website.)
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Gogo Adds Talking and Texting Capabilities, but U.S. Fliers Won't Be Making Voice Calls Any Time Soon
Gogo is expanding its inflight Wi-Fi service to allow customers to send texts and make voice calls using their existing smartphones.
The new capabilities, which are expected to debut next year, use a custom app for iPhone and Android to manage calling and texting, though messages will come from the device owner's own number.
"There is a need for passengers to continue their life at 35,000 feet," Gogo head of product development Brad Jaehn told AllThingsD in an interview. "A big part of that is text messaging and, where allowed, carrying on conversations."
That said, U.S. airlines don't appear keen to allow customers to converse during flight. Gogo already blocks Skype at the carriers' request and expects to only enable the texting options of its new service for domestic flights.
The ability to talk as well, though, is something often requested by overseas carriers.
"This is something international airlines have asked for," Jaehn said. "We know it's probably not socially acceptable in the U.S."
Gogo is still evaluating how to price the new service. It's looking at many options, including selling a bundle of texts or minutes, offering it as an add-on to its standard Wi-Fi, partnering with carriers or even offering some texting for free supported by advertising.
Gogo is also in the process of adding new antennas to planes, allowing twice as many devices to be online, and providing peak speeds three times faster than its prior service.


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12 Best Summer Hair Care Products -- and the 2 Worst
See which summer hairstyling goodies are winners and which ones should be thrown in the pool
Why it's great: Readers say this "surfy and sexy" salt spray is "great for a natural beachy look." One reviewer writes, "It gave my hair natural waves and texture, almost like a rolled out of bed type of look, but with some structure," adding, "It doesn't make my hair feel crunchy at all."
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I've heard good things about the bumble and bumble surf spray, but it's a little to pricey for me. Wanna try it though.
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I like aussie a lot
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thanks so much for the info.... I use Aveda brilliant Damage Control, and Biosilk beach texture together... they are great!
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I always assumed that Bumble & Bumble products were quite good. However, I see a lot of the stuff made by this company listed in Total Beauty's "Worse" category. Bumble & Bumble also isn't as cheap as other drugstore brands, and if I had spent $18.95 on a product that got terrible reviews like this hair powder, I wouldn't be a happy camper.
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I'm impressed with Aussie in general. The products work very well,and, are reasonably priced. Rivals salon brands.
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my favorite product is not on the list-- but it should be!! It's called Crack- an addictive hair fix!!!!
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I've tried the aussie sprunch and wasn't too impressed but I've heard great things about bumble and bumble.
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I love the Bumble and Bumble surf spray! I definitely need to check out the Aussie product.
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I like Aussie hair products. Have tried many and like them all.
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
Peyton Meyer has joined Disney Channel's "Girl Meets World" as Tristan Friar, "a lad who attends school with (and attracts much googly-eyed attention from) the title character" (TVLine.com); Judd Nelson is bound for the final season of "Nikita" as "a deep-cover operative working for the nefarious duo of Amanda and The Shop's Mr. Jones" (TVLine.com); Lindsey Morgan will recur on The CW's "The 100" as the "smart, skilled and fiercely determined Raven, the youngest mechanical engineer the Ark has seen in 52 years" (THR.com); and Cassie Scerbo will appear on at least two episodes of "Baby Daddy" as Riley's (Chelsea Kane) former archenemy/best friend Heather (THR.com).


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One-Eyed Cat: Norse Paganism & Northern European Witchcraft
This is the magic of Freyja and I am her völva: a seer, priestess and oracle.
Sharing wisdom taught directly by the Norse Gods over twenty years of practice, I teach safer seiðr / seidr / seidhr (Norse trance work and fate-magic), reverent animism, and deeper workings with the Gods and land spirits through respect for all life and peoples.
Loki's Wife, Sigyn: Norse Goddess of Loyalty and Faith
Motion and color. Orange-flecked wings— flickering, flowing, flying, flexing. So many of them that you cannot see what they rest upon, simply that there is life, a whirr of scaled wings.
September, you think— and migrations, thinking of milkweed and Mexico. But these are not monarchs. These butterflies have smaller, rounder wings, less showy and more delicate—
And you are not resting amid sunlit trees, nor crossing the open plains, but somewhere deep and dark.
Where is this— how?—
A woman's voice interrupts you, and the butterflies scatter.
"Hush," she says, to the questions, to the myriad of thoughts fluttering through your mind. Her voice has a rich timbre, calm and quietly strong, which inspires confidence.
You are alone in a cavern with a Goddess. She is older than you, somehow, but not middle-aged. The only light, hushed like moonlight, comes from her bare arms and shoulders. Her feet move as lightly as moths. Her presence circles you and you feel her looking at you closely. Her gaze is neither predatory nor benign; she is judging you, but she keeps her judgments to herself.
She tells you something deeply personal, something secret like this cavern that only a God could know. She does not tell you why this thing is so. It's an observation, not a judgment, and not something you can or would ever deny. But the statement still surprises you.
Your mouth opens, closes, opens, like wings. Words spill out.
"The butterflies— you're Sigyn—"
Sigyn presses a hand to your lips, and looks at you directly now. You cannot remember the color of her eyes, nor of her hair and skin, just a certain litheness to her limbs that underscores her strength. And she is incredibly strong, for all the long bones look delicate, for all her voice is soft and measured and a woman's. Whatever she is wearing is light and dignified, not showy, and suits her like a skin.
She has no need to be showy.
Sigyn holds her arms out and the butterflies flow back to her in a field of color and light. Covering her arms, her hands, circling her. Wreathing her. They glow.
Someone with hair of soaring flame once told you that she liked butterflies, and when you asked Him why, he said, 'Ask her.'
But Sigyn smiles, and answers the question that you leash back, unspoken.
"Butterflies are amazingly strong… and brave. Most creatures this delicate would shrink away, hide and protect themselves rather than face the dangers of the open sky, the wind and sun.
"Their lives are so brief, and they know it. They celebrate it. Butterflies flaunt their beauty, knowing it will kill them. Their strength is not of the form, but of the essence…"
You think of all that Sigyn, wife of Loki Silver-Tongue, has endured. That her only known myth is of the woman who holds the bowl in this dark cavern, catching the hissing venom that drips from an eternal, infernal snake upon the face of her bound husband. Alone in her vigil, she shares his exile. She is not a prisoner. No one locked her here; no one punished her, stripped her of rank or condemned her: she chose to stay. The children who would bind them to each other are gone. Dead or insane, one son turned into a wolf (metaphorical or otherwise) to rip the guts out of the other, entrails used to bind their father fast to a cold, pitted and pitiless stone— a stone as unyielding as the ugly truths he spoke.
But there is no bowl here, and no Loki.
Sigyn turns to release the butterflies, and in the light from them as they ascend you see a fold of her garment drop below her slim shoulders, see the venom pits and tracks, river-ruts that cut across her skin—
There is no bowl.
There is only Sigyn.
She lowers her arms and the clothing ripples back into place again, as if nothing was revealed.
You want to turn away from this, from her eyes that, even worse than her now-covered skin, accept no trace of pity.
"I have scars. You have scars. We ALL have scars."
And there is something in what she says that makes the scars important, rather than a sign of weakness—
"They are what we have overcome."
Her moth-feet slide silently, her butterfly hands glide over your skin, finding scars you had forgotten, but which had not forgotten you. Things you thought had no hold on you anymore, that formed the shape of certain things in your life. She brings them out, and speaks to you of them, precise as a surgeon.
How many eons was she here, blocking the hate, the poison? How did she—
"Your people have forgotten something important:
"I am NOT the loyal wife. I am loyalty. I am not the faithful woman; I am faith. 'Wife' is a role, unimportant to that. There was once a saying, 'Loyal as Sigyn'."
And Sigyn, whose name means 'Victorious Friend', breaks apart into a flock of butterflies, taking this place, this cavern with her, leaving you alone to drift between awake and dreaming.
Little is now known of the Norse Goddess Sigyn— spouse of one of the most colorful deities in world mythology, the trickster Loki— save that she is his wife. Several kennings (stock poetry phrases) refer to Loki by referencing her in some way. One of them is 'the arm-burden of Sigyn'. Based on literary evidence, Sigyn is thought to be the woman who appears in Viking-era rock carvings, holding a bowl andkneeling beside or bending over a bound man.
Despite Loki's ambiguous reputation as the sole male Giant among the Aesir Gods (a member of the tribe often interpreted as antagonistic to them), Sigyn is counted as one of the Aesir, and included by the early medieval writer Snorri Sturleson in a list of the Goddesses who sit on their council. In what literature survives, nothing uncomplimentary is said or implied abot her. Popular interpretations of Sigyn, however, run the gamut from self-sacrificing number two of an iconoclast who pushes things too far to the "better half" of Viking Evil Incarnate.
Attention is rarely given to the meaning of Sigyn's name, which does not imply a dupe or victim.
What we overcome makes us victorious in the face of adversity. The greater the trial, the greater that victory.
This essay first appeared at Eternal Haunted Summer.
For more on Loki (whose Old Norse root-verb, lokke, means "desire" and "lock", implying far more than a fire spirit), study the ample list of heiti (by-names) for Odhin provided by the narrators "High", "Just-as-High" and "Third" in Snorri Sturleson's Prose Edda and within the poems of the Poetic Edda, such as Havamal-- and compare them with Loki's myths, devastating loss (one of his sons tragically kills the other) and M.O., which closely mirror Odhin's.
Also, research how Loki is viewed as a trickster rather than a villain in Europe, working from original-language primary source material and folkloric tradition. There's an excellent series of well-researched articles on Loki by Stephan Grundy, "Kveldulfr Gundarsson" in previous issues of Idunna, running from #93-96.
Or for a thoroughly entertaining blog by a modern worshiper of Loki getting a PhD in Iceland, see Sacred Iceland.
Friday, 28 March 2014
Hi Shirl! This is a lovely picture of Sigyn. It's so nice to see her get some attention. This is a great teaser; I'm really looking forward to seeing your Norse Goddesses book
I've just read your article on Eir in this season's Idunna, which brought me here. It had some very vivid imagery and emotion. It reads like many of my interactions with deity in journeys; and though I haven't really interacted with Eir much, I feel that you've really brought her to life for me. Thanks for sharing--I'm looking forward to reading more of your work!· Shirl Sazynski likes this comment.
Monday, 31 March 2014
Hi Kara! Thanks for your response and the compliments. It's why I'm writing things like this; I want to bring humans and the Gods closer together by getting to meet and know one another as real people. Not abstract concepts. Not 'aspects' of a whole. Wise and loving people you can befriend as our ancestors did.
Monday, 31 March 2014
And if more of us talked about these sorts of experiences, the process would be easier on everyone. While all of these encounters are deeply personal to those involved, not all of them are deeply private. And like any other conversation, with appropriate context there's much to be learned by sharing.
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Tips to help you choose your next holiday
Grafton is blooming wonderful
Spring blooms are at their finest in Grafton on the NSW North Coast at the annual jacaranda festival from October 25 to November 2.
The striking purple blossoms have been celebrated since 1935 with a variety of events including street parades, markets, cultural and handicraft displays and the crowning of the Jacaranda Queen.
Recent festival additions include a riverside feast of the best food, wine, craft beer and local artistic talent from the Clarence Valley region.
Visit www.jacarandafestival.com.
New Top End experiences
New experiences have been developed in the Northern Territory's Top End to complement the Bruce Munro: Tropical Light which will run in Darwin from November 1 until April 30 on 1 November as a free-to-the-public outdoor art exhibition.
The products range from five-star dining at Char to Tropical Nights at Crocosaurus Cove.
Char, for instance, has created an indulgent dining experience which involves being collected in a limousine and escorted to East Point Reserve, where guests will be treated to champagne and canapes as the sun sets over the Arafura Sea.
Guests will return to Char for a two-course dinner with matched wines, before an exclusive tour of the exhibition between main course and dessert. Cost is $495 per head.
Visit www.northernterritory.com .
Food will compete with the views
Flinders Ranges Odysseys has a new three-day tour ex-Adelaide offering classy accommodation, food and wine while discovering the spectacular and rugged scenery of Wilpena Pound and the magnificent ranges.
Guests will explore the 540 million-year-old Flinders Ranges in luxury air-conditioned Mercedes Benz vehicles, in small, intimate groups of up to eight people, accompanied by a personal local tour guide.
Accommodation is at Rawnsley Park Station overlooking the southern side of Wilpena Pound and surrounded by seclusion and breathtaking views. Highlights include a three-course lamb-tasting experience, served with matching Clare Valley wines, and finished with South Australian ports and local cheeses.
Prices are from $2242 per person twin-share, including all meals, pick-up and set- down at selected Adelaide CBD hotels, personalised touring, expert commentary from a local driver/guide, all entrance fees, special permits and all activities. Phone 08 8553 0386 or visit www.kangarooislandodysseys.com.au.
Scare yourself silly
Warning! Madame Tussauds Sydney is hosting Melt!, a series of immersive horror tours, this Halloween between October 31 and November 2 at 6pm and 10.30pm nightly, and the show is not for the faint-hearted.
Are you brave enough to join the Melt! tours? Your one and only goal is to avoid becoming the next victim. Get caught and you'll join the others as you haunt the shadows of Madame Tussauds as the killer's half-melted trophy.
The artist needs a muse, someone to inspire their next trophy and no visitor wants to be next.
Work together to learn the identity of the Tussaud's killer and survive to tell the tale. Admission is $50 (18-plus only).
Visit www.madametussauds.com.au.
Walk through a wine-making region
Prosecco may be one of the world's most famous and appreciated wine styles, but as a place, where vineyards cling to the sides of endless rolling hills and quaint medieval villages, it remains one of Italy's best-kept secrets.
Exodus Travels' Prosecco Hills Long Weekend, a four-day walking and cultural experience, has been designed for those looking for a short, guided experience through the beautiful wine-making region while already exploring Italy.
The tour includes the Prosecco Hills loop and the Villa-Barbaro-to-Asolo walk, and combines hiking, sightseeing, beautiful local wineries, plenty of prosecco tasting and an abundance of local cuisine.
Prices are from $1449, though those booking by October 18 can save 10 per cent on trips before December 31 next year.
Visit www.exodustravels.com.
Travel guide to the Universe
Lonely Planet has journeyed further than it ever has before, with what is thought to be the world's first and only travel guide to the Universe, a book created in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
The new book touches down on the planets of our solar system, before continuing to the edge of the known Universe via exoplanets, newborn stars, supernova remnants, galaxy superclusters and more, as it discovers space's most astonishing sights. Featuring 608 pages, 553 photos, and 124 planets, The Universe follows in the successful tradition of Lonely Planet's 2014 best-selling guide to The World, which is also still available.
The hardcover book is priced at $39.99. Visit www.lonelyplanet.com.


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I have learned and seen what comes with love and solid faith, these things can get you through the happiest of times and the roughest of times.
I have learned that there is nothing so time critical that I can not stop and play with my children for 5 minutes, these are the things that they are going to remember some day, pretty sure that they are never going to know that I had laundry in baskets to be folded or toilets might not be clean enough to drink from!
I can never say I love you too much, weather it be to my children, my husband or my family
My family is my everything and that is OK, some might think it is odd but for me it works and that is all that matters.
I have realized that thought my husbands jokes are horrible at times, they bring me laughter that brings tears to my eyes at other times, the really bad ones are worth the ones that bring me to tears. (Love ya babe!)
I have learned that I'm a better person with Jason by my side, when I want to go wild, be lazy, complain or fill sorry for myself he is there to step up and tell me the truth or just to listen, he makes me a better person each day.
I have learned that my husband is an amazing father, he may not do it all the way I do it and he may not do it on my schedule but that does not mean that he does not do it with all the love in his heart. My children are so blessed to have such an amazing father.
I have realized that my husband does not like to fold laundry, I have come to appreciate (with a little grumbling) baskets of clean clothing that just need to be folded and put away.
I have learned that some of the most important photos I will take are the days that we are just at home in our jammies doing nothing of important but spending some time with one another, these are moments that we will want to look back on, not just the birthday parties and Christmas trees though those are wonderful also.
I have learned not to let my children eat pop tarts in the living room, they are really hard to clean off the leather couch!
I have learned to stop and listen to my children, I mean really stop get down and listen to what they have to say, sometimes those little minds will remind you have the things that really matter. They have a faith that I find amazing.
I have learned to enjoy moments on the couch cuddling or holding a baby in my arms rocking before bed time because I know that in just a moment those children will no longer want to sit by me or let me hold them. I must cherish this right now.
I have learned to keep learning, some of the best teachers are a four year old and and two year old!
I have learned to cherish bath time, Daddy does bath time, this is my moment to take a deep breath and remember the good of the day or just go use the other restroom by myself with no one touching me, whatever I do in those five minutes while Daddy is in charge I have learned to cherish.
I have learned that it is OK to do things that are going to be messy as long as they bring smiles to faces and joy to our hearts.
I have learned that it is OK for kids to run naked in the backyard, as Stella told me Adam and Eve did not need clothing then why does she?
I have learned that falling asleep at night with the man of my dreams by me, makes me one of the luckiest girls in the world.
I have learned that I may be up 15 times in the middle of the night with my children and exhausted that they are still going to be going strong the next day, always keep coffee in the house.
I have learned that I really am blessed each day with the greatest gifts a women could ask for, friends to laugh with, children to play with, a husband to love, and faith in a God that can do all things.
Here is to looking forward to all that 2012 has in store for us.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
What I have learned in 2011
I have learned and seen what comes with love and solid faith, these things can get you through the happiest of times and the roughest of times.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
and a Merry Christmas was had by all!
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Twas the night before Christmas...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Santa is coming to town!
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Christmas Cards
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Ever had a newborn kid? Or even been around one? They are the worst. You treasure any moment of peace and serenity available, and if you see a chance to create one, you take it.
If you think this is somehow staged, I can assure you, babies are weird. They'll find the strangest tranquillisers. My daughter, who is just the sweetest, used to do the same thing as this kid, only for this.
Crying Baby Calmed By Star Wars Theme Song [Gezi park, via Topless Robot]


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Mats Johan Sundin (Swedish pronunciation: ; born February 13, 1971) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player. Originally drafted first overall in 1989, Sundin played his first four seasons in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques. He was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1994, where he played the majority of his career, serving 11 seasons as team captain. At the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, Sundin had been the longest serving non-North American born captain in NHL history. Sundin last played for the Vancouver Canucks in the 2008–09 season before announcing his retirement on September 30, 2009.
Excluding his rookie season, the shortened lockout season and his half season with the Vancouver Canucks, Sundin scored at least 70 points in every season of his career, played at least 70 games in every season (except for the lockout-shortened 1994–95 season and his final half-season), and led the Leafs in points in every year he has been with the team except 2002–03, when Alexander Mogilny beat him by seven points. On October 14, 2006, Sundin became the first Swedish player to score 500 goals. He is the Leafs' franchise all-time leader in goals (420) and points (984). He is currently tied with Jaromír Jágr, Sergei Fedorov, and Patrik Eliáš for the NHL record for regular-season overtime goals (15).
Internationally, Sundin won three gold medals with Sweden at the World Championships and a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.


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This recipe was given to me by my nutritionist as a Passover alternative to having my morning bowl of hot oatmeal. Quinoa is a highly nutritious grain; It has a delicious flavor, and a light, fluffy texture. After the seders you will want a light option for breakfast.
Recipe Ingredients
1/2 cup dry quinoa, well rinsed
2 tablespoons raisins
1 cup chopped fresh apricots, or dried apricots
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine quinoa and rice milk in a medium saucepan. Bring to a slow simmer, then cover and cook for about 15 minutes until the quinoa is tender. Stir in raisins, apricots, and vanilla, and transfer about 1 & 1/2 cups to a blender and puree. Return pureed mixture to the pan and stir to mix. Serve warm or chilled.
Healthy Details
Per 1/2 cup serving
Calories 106
Fat 1.4
Carbohydrates 21.4
Fiber 1.5
Protein 2.4
Sugar 8.3
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