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Researchers identify elevated levels of a stress hormone in teenage boys as a signpost of major depression.
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Researchers identify elevated levels of a stress hormone in teenage boys as a signpost of major depression.
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Patients Benefit From Restraint-free Care
Because the hospital is a cancer center, "we explain to them that they might be at higher risk of confusion—this could be cancer tumor–related; chemotherapy can increase confusion—and also our patients can become very sick really quick at times during treatment, so they're more at risk of falling," says Bertini. "Empowering patients and family members from the get-go that they might become more confused and explaining the plan on how we'll work together as a team to address it immediately decreases anxiety of both the patient and their family members."
New initiatives
The program brought about some upgrades and continuous improvement plans to continue to achieve 100% accuracy. The facility replaced every bed in the hospital with new ones that have bed alarms. The beds now ring to the nurses' station so nursing staff will know right away if a patient is out of bed.
"We also educate the patient and family members so they know what those alarms are for—any alarm without explanation causes anxiety," says Bertini.
Every patient gets checked in on at least every hour and more often if they are at a higher risk.
Although the process ties into MRP initiatives, all of those involved with the restraint-free program at CTCA agree that going restraint-free is far more universal than that.
"As the [MRP] coordinator, I'd love to say we did it for MRP, but we did it more than five years ago because it's best for our patients," says Bertini. The organization has been on the MRP journey to excellence for two years, but the restraint-free policy has been working much longer than that.
Buy-in from nurses was no trouble. "As a matter of fact, some of our staff wondered why it took us until 2005 to become restraint-free," says Bertini. "As soon as we started the program, we had a successful immediate stop. Nurses were very proud and happy to have permission to go restraint-free."
The bottom line: It worked. CTCA at Midwestern has seen a dramatic decrease in fall injury rates, which it ties directly to the no-restraint program.
"We also see increased patient satisfaction," Bertini says. "Considering how sick our patients might be at any given time, our goal is to make it as safe and comfortable as possible. We continue quality checks with the restraint-free program and report back on quality to the board."
The program also benefited CTCA at Midwestern on a recent Joint Commission survey.
"We had Joint Commission review not long ago, and the surveyors were impressed that we don't restrain our ventilated patients. They had not seen an initiative like this," says Bertini. "They were very impressed with our process improvement."
Zeta-Sanchez summarizes the success of the program in four steps.
- Support from leadership—both of the practice and financial development
- Sound clinical practice and guidelines, which includes leadership and nursing staff participating in program development
- Training and education at all nursing levels
- Training and education of the patient and family
"We are very fortunate at CTCA at Midwestern that we've got a very active hospital board," says Bertini. "The nurses know all of the hospital board members. We're very comfortable reporting back our numbers. Every month, we are able to report back great success in maintaining the restraint-free environment. There is a lot of accountability in the CTCA environment."
Tips for success
- Keep your program simple. Every encounter at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) is delivered through the Mother Standard® of care. If your mother had cancer, how would you want her treated? Would you want her to be restrained?
- Provide a patient care technician at no cost to patients to sit with them when needed. Using your own nursing and patient care technicians delivers a higher quality of care than using outside sitting services. The connection CTCA nurses have with patients and their family members promotes empowerment and accountability.
- Round every hour on every patient, which decreases the patient's level of stress and fear. Patients become less confused and have a lower fall risk if they feel well cared for. Increase the rounding intervals for patients who are at risk for confusion, falls, and anxiety.
- Maintain a natural-looking environment in patients' rooms, hallways, nursing stations, and lounges. Make sure to have natural light, pleasing colors, and minimal noise levels in every room.
- Educate patients and family members on how to stay in their normal circadian rhythm. Sleep deprivation may lead to a host of problems, including confusion and falls.
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Another LC Ice Cream
A very good friend of mine who is also a diabetic ask a favor of me a week or so ago. He has a strong passion for ice cream but has very low tolerance for some s/a's of which isomalt is one. His BG i ok with it but it gives him great stomach distress with any more than a small amount. So he ask me to come up with a recipe that he could tolerate and have a texture similar to the mint Ice cream I made.
Oh that's right and strawberry too....:laugh:
Anyway the following is the recipe. It has good taste, texture and no distress for him and possibly others.
2 T. water
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup Davinci strawberry syrup
1 Tablespoon isomalt (diabeti sweet will work also)
1/4 cup granular erythritol
1/2 teaspoon splenda quick pack (1/2 cup equivilent)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons not/Sugar
1/8 teaspoon strawberry flavor oil
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup dehydrated strawberries
Combine isomalt, salt, not/Sugar, splenda, erythritol and set aside.
Combine water, 1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream, and Davinci syrup.
Heat mixture in a saucepan until bubbles start to form.
Remove from heat and stir the sweetener mixture in with a whisk until dissolved.
Then stir in the 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream, dehydrated strawberries and flavor oil.
Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Make in Ice cream maker according to directions.
The texture is very close to original Isomalt version at all stages.
Way to go!
I know your friend there appreciates the effort, and so do I! (not because of isomalt issues, I just like options!)
Looks great!
Thanks so much Kevin! I have some of those problems too and this looks awesome to me!! Thanks thanks thanks
Wow this looks like something I could handle too. I won't go near recipes that call for anything over 1/4-1/3 cup of isomalt or diabetisweet. Is it scoopable after frozen or rock hard? And where are you buying the oil? I can get dried strawberries at Trader Joe's but oils not so easy. I know whole foods has some flavors, maybe I'll try them. Have you thought about adding in some Jok'N Al jam?
And tweaking the flavors is you guys job.....:laugh:
Looks wonderful. I haven't tried making a LC ice cream yet--haven't had the ice cream freezer out in years. Sure looks tempting though. I'm afraid we'd have portion control problems--we use to make ice cream and eat it all in one day!
Kevin, can you tell me the carb count for this and your mint c.c. ice cream? Not sure if I missed it somewhere. Is this okay for induction do you think? I can't really see anything that is off limits...TIA
thanks Kevin...how many servings is this? and how much do you consider a serving?? sorry for so many questions...
Some people consider 1/2 cup a serving so that would be 2 carbs.
Thanks Kevin,thinking ahead to those "ice cream sandwiches" w/ your chocolate cookies...so 1/2 C in each would only add 2 carbs...for a total of about 3.25 carbs for each ice cream sandwich...:up::kicking: I am going to make your mint cc ice cream though and not the strawberry. Is the carb count a little lower for the mint...I figured it might be b/c of no strawberries:dunno: Also, for a basic vanilla ice cream...would I just omit the mint flavorings and add more vanilla? Again, sorry for so many questions. TIA
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are showing a united front despite 20-year-old Mariah Yeater alleging that he's the father of her child.
The young power couple (dressed in all black) enjoyed a private tour of Chelsea Football Club's facilities on Monday, just one day after the MTV European Music Awards of which they took part in, both of them performing at the event and SelGo hosting it. Following the tour, the two went their separate ways, Justin reportedly heading to UCL hospital.
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U.S. beef exports to Japan could increase 45 percent this year because of a change in Japanese regulations.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided on Monday to ease tough import restrictions on beef from the United States, Canada, France and the Netherlands.
The ministry made the decision after getting approval from its Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council, an advisory panel of experts, on the same day. The decision will take effect on Feb. 1.
An official at the ministry's food safety department confirmed the decision to The Journal of Commerce. Japan, which was once the largest buyer of U.S. beef, will allow imports of meat from U.S. cattle aged up to 30 months, instead of up to 20 months at present, the official said.
Japan banned U.S. beef imports immediately after a case of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), was detected in an American herd at the end of 2003.
In 2005, Japan resumed imports of U.S. beef, but only meat from cattle aged 20 months or younger. The U.S. has been calling for relaxing the age limit.
According to data from the Denver-based U.S. Meat Export Federation, the U.S exported a total of about 1.287 million metric tons of beef, including variety meat, to the rest of the world in 2011, up 20.6 percent from 2010.
The U.S. shipped 158,646 metric tons of beef to Japan in 2011, up 27.4 percent from 2010 but still down 57.7 percent from 2003. In terms of value, U.S. beef exports to Japan totaled $874 million in 2011.
The federation predicts that because the permissible age of animals for export has been raised to 30 months, Japan's imports of U.S. beef in 2013 will reach 225,000 metric tons, with a value of $1.5 billion, or an increase of about 45 percent in both value and volume.
Beef exports are an important cargo for ocean carriers in the trans-Pacific and command higher freight rates than most dry commodities.
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The official at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also said that Japan will also ease tough restrictions on beef imports from Canada, France and the Netherlands.
At present, Japan imposes a 20-month age limit on Canadian beef, and that limit also will be raised to 30 months. Imports from France and the Netherlands are currently prohibited, but meat from French cattle aged up to 30 months and from Dutch cattle aged up to 12 months will be allowed.
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Money. We all need it to survive but for some reason no matter how hard some of us work for it, we just don't seem to have enough left to enjoy the finer things. In school we are taught about many useless topics that we can't put to use in everyday life. It's very strange that they don't try to teach us about proper money management as early as they do sex education and parenting class. I mean after all, if some of these 16 & Pregnant stars knew how much it cost to raise a child maybe they would think twice before laying down. As a child I was encouraged to save my money for a rainy day. My mother would always tell me to save my money without really explaining why or how it would benefit my life down the line. Like many 20 something's my age instant gratification seemed more appealing than the idea of sacrifice. This way of thinking led me to many nights of lightly seasoned Top Ramen Noodles and instant regret that I spent my money with such reckless abandon. It was during my final "broke chick" spell that I had to face the facts I sucked at spending my money wisely. I looked at my investment portfolio and realized shoes and purses technically didn't count as investments. Staring into an empty wallet and bank account with insufficient funds forced me to realize the real reasons I was always broke after bills. If you are in a financial predicament that you don't enjoy, it is time that you take the necessary steps to rectify the situation. Our 20s are the years we must build a nest for our retirement down the road. It is during this decade that a young woman must build good credit, clear bad debts and contribute to a form of investment no matter how modest. Without further adieu let's get into the 6 Brutally honest reasons you are always broke:
1. You spend more than you earn.
When you walk into a store buying a new pair of shoes is more important to you than paying your bills on time. You eat out often, lend money to those who never pay it back and it has led you to a place of poverty. If you continue to spend more than you earn relying on credit cards and spending to the last cent, you will never become financially stable. Learning to prioritize your needs vs your wants will help you to make better use of your money.
2. You don't have any investments.
You will be hard pressed to find anyone in this world who is a self-made millionaire who doesn't have any investments. The poor work for money and the wealthy make their money work for them. When you bust your chops doing what you love to do, you owe it to yourself to pay yourself first. You do this by investing set portion of your earnings to grow and multiple for you. If you don't know much about investments everything you need to know is a Google search away. Book an appointment with your local bank and bring in a list of questions you may have related to investments. They will take the time to answer your questions so you know exactly where your money is going.
3.You have allowed someone to convince you how much your hour is worth.
One of the reasons I decided to go into business for myself was because I found it ridiculous that someone I didn't know and would never meet had the balls to tell me how much my hour was worth. I have worked in jobs where I literally worked through my breaks, arrived early and left late just to earn more money. I was always left feeling miserable and unfulfilled. Friday was all I looked forward to and the thought that this would be my life forever depressed me. I know there are many jobs that run on an hourly rate that people truly enjoy, for me that just was not the case. If you too feel you are being undercut each hour on the job, you may want to consider why you are not planning your exit. If you are self-motivated, willing to put in some long hours and really stick it out-entrepreneurship may be for you too. It is not easier by any means but the earning potential in the long run is far more lucrative than slaving away at a job that pays you peanuts for irreversible life hours.
4.You are depreciation focused.
There are assets which can be sold for money down the line and then there are those pesky liabilities that suck your money dry. When you are depreciation focused buying things that lose value over time are more your cup of tea. Things of this nature include but are not limited to: Expensive cars, personal vacations, inexpensive clothing and expensive hair/ beauty products. When your goal is to one day not have to focus on the price tag alone, you will have to begin focusing on purchasing things that don't lose value quickly. Investments, Property, businesses and designer items you can sell on consignment if it came down to it are smarter purchases.
5.You are not around wealthy people enough.
Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are. I have friends from all walks of life. The ones who motivate me the most are the ambitious and wealthy ones. Whether they be rich in the spirit of God or with actual wealth-they inspire me. Being around broke people will make you broke too. Constantly eating out, shopping needlessly, never discussing investments or business opportunities will slaughter your drive and chances to be well off. Make just one highly successful friend or find a mentor and watch how they rub off on you. You will go to their home and feel motivated to upgrade your own. You will learn so much from them about business you will feel inspired to start your own. The benefits are endless but the most valuable one is becoming successful yourself so you can be an asset to that friend as well.
6.You are not thinking about the long term benefit.
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|14 And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained [servants], born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] as far as Dan.
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You take care, Jane. Best wishes for a steady if not speedy recovery.
your ole' blog pal, punaise
(and if this will cheer you up, I will despise Joe "Rape Gurney" Lieberman for eternity… )
time for me to toddle off as well. Nice catching up with y'all; I'll try to stop by again soon… belated howdy to Suz!
MONTREAL — Quebec's separatists are watching closely this week to see if the Scottish independence movement has learned from their failed attempts to break away from Canada. And it could be rejuvenated if Scotland breaks away from the United Kingdom.
I hope to visit there someday.
keep fighting the good fight, spocko! it's an uphill battle…
hello, indeed!
but you've got it backwards! In Montreal they half-jokingly say that Harvard is the McGill of the U.S.
well in French they do call it Nouvelle Ecosse (New Scotland). So I guess we've come full circle…
(btw punaisette was just in Halifax for a week on her way to a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris).
You can bet they're watching closely, along with Catalonians and many others. I doubt we'll witness my wife's Breton countrymen rise up however: too many perks from the central gov't. Plus, it's a dying language.
no, purely fictional.
you can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.
CT! here's one for ya:
The athletic director at a small, cash-strapped high school was struggling
with budget constraints. The problem was exacerbated by track and field
events that habitually lasted longer than scheduled, racking up additional
use charges for the facilities that they rented from a nearby institution.
Despite repeated efforts to reign in the problem, he finally conceded that
he just couldn't make meets end.
yeah, been seriously slacking in the blog hang-out dept. I lurk a bit. hope you're well.
tap, tap, tap… this thing on?
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Cockamamie crap.
David Atkins nails it:
So here you have an obscenely rich, selfish ideologue leading a bunch of people dependent on government largesse to decry wasteful government and demand more local control. The technocrat would make out like a bandit on the deal and the rubes will suffer, cheering the whole time. And when the fantasy gets stopped by reasonable people, both the ideologue and his marks will complain about the evil Democrats the whole time.
If ever there were a perfect encapsulation of the Republican Party, that would be it.
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Late to the party, but damn that sounded good. Always had a weak spot for that tune. The Doobies were from pre-Silicon Valley San Jose, a local band that made it big.
thx CT.
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good golly, msmolly, it has been eons, hasn't it…
Some writers use several initials rather than their given name(s) to
maintain an air of cryptic aloofness or gender ambiguity. Think famed food
writer MFK Fisher, or TC Boyle.
In a scathing diatribe against sunbathers, in particular the debonnaire
George Hamilton of Doonesbury fame, we encounter:
Going Off on a Tan Gent by SPF Phiphtee.
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I just poneyed up a modest amount. Don't hang out here much anymore, but y'all are fighting the good fight…
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Irrigator confident of fee refundPUBLISHED: 08 Mar 2011 00:35:00 | UPDATED: 08 Mar 2011 08:30:32PUBLISHED: 08 Mar 2011 PRINT EDITION: 08 Mar 2011
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The directors of Australia's largest cotton irrigator, Cubbie Group, say they are confident that a $1.5 million establishment fee paid to Swiss- based potential buyer Western Gulf Advisory will be refunded.
Cubbie Group directors Keith De Lacy and John Grabbe paid $3 million across two establishment fees to Western Gulf.
Mr De Lacy said yesterday that Western Gulf had already repaid $1.5 million in establishment fees.
"We don't see any reason why the second establishment fee won't be paid," Mr De Lacy said.
Western Gulf was to access capital for the directors, leading to a recapitalisation for the cotton grower.
Cubbie Group administrator John Cronin from McGrathNicol has joined a gathering chorus of Australian business people concerned about Western Gulf Advisory's capacity to provide funding.
Mr Grabbe said yesterday that the directors had "called off" the arrangements with Western Gulf because of "external issues".
"It had absolutely nothing to do with Western Gulf.
"We know Western Gulf to be completely honourable people," Mr Grabbe said.
Western Gulf Advisory's founder Ahsan Ali Syed has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and rejected criticism of the company's credentials.
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Intestinal atresia or stenosis. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://dynamed.ebscohost.com. Updated July 29, 2013. Accessed August 14, 2013.
Intestinal atresia and stenosis. Boston Children's Hospital website. Available at: http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1180/mainpageS1180P0.html. Published 2011. Accessed August 14, 2013.
Intestinal atresia and stenosis. Cincinnati Children's Hospital website. Available at: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/i/obstructions. Updated August 2010. Accessed August 14, 2013.
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The city has vowed to crack down on worker absenteeism after paying a record $11.6 million in sick costs last year.
The average unionized city worker took 11 sick days in 2011, according to a city report, although absenteeism varied widely by department. The average for transit, water and sewage workers, for example, ranged between 13.5 and 14.2 days off work, while public health employees averaged 4.9. Non-unionized workers took only half as many sick days, an average of 5.7 for the year.
Over five years, sick day costs at the city climbed from $9.9 million in 2007 to $11.6 million. That doesn't include the cost of covering for missing workers, such as overtime.
The report prompted council to approve a plan Wednesday to cut by one the number of sick days the average worker takes each year, a move designed to save the city more than $1 million annually by the end of 2014.
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"We really need to hammer big time at this," said Councillor Bernie Morelli, who believes only a small minority of workers abuse the system. "We need to be fair, but we can't be shy. We need to deal with people who aren't following the rules."
Human resources head Helen Hale Tomasik said the city already has an "attendance support program" that focuses attention — first through help and then, if necessary, punishment — on workers who miss more than seven days in a year. Ten city workers were fired in 2010 and 2011 for absenteeism.
But she said Thursday the program is "tightening up" to take a closer look at workers who "fly under the radar" with fewer but regular absences. Tomasik said all managers will get extra training on recognizing and dealing with sick day abuse. Staff will also comb through attendance records, looking for patterns of potential abuse such as sick days tacked onto weekends.
The city will also focus more on employee health, workplace accommodation and getting sick workers back on the job sooner.
Tomasik said most workers have excellent attendance, with almost 75 per cent recording two or fewer "sick occasions" last year. Hamilton actually cut the average number of worker sick days from 11 in 2008 to 9.9 in 2010, she added, but rebounded last year.
Across the country, Statistics Canada says municipalities averaged around 9.6 days of missed work in 2010. Private sector workers averaged 8.2 lost days compared to 11.8 for their public sector counterparts. As in Hamilton, the national average for sick days in unionized workplaces, 12.9, was almost double that of the 7.3 at non-unionized workplaces.
There are plenty of reasons — good and bad — behind absenteeism in Hamilton and other municipalities, Tomasik said.
Hamilton has an aging workforce, she said, which translates into more legitimate sick days. The city hired a healthy-workplace specialist last year to deal with an increase in sick time due to heart disease and mental illness.
Labour strife can also bump up absenteeism, Tomasik said, adding 2011 saw a spike in grievances. Staff will talk to all union leaders about the push to cut sick days, she said.
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From what I've gathered, and I'm the first to admit my knowledge is limited, the Bene is made for light cruising, possible living and entertaining.
The Tartan is a cruiser which can race as well.
The X-37 seems the most geared towards racing of the three., but that's my perception from my research.
If I could find the external beauty of the Tartan (I prefer the flat back, not the step down platform of the Beneteau) with the internal beauty of the Bene, incl. the 2 heads and the more spacious staterooms (non-V-berth), I'd buy it today.
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One way to make better lunch decisions is to ALWAYS eat breakfast in the morning. That way, by lunch you can make a smart choice instead of one out of severe hunger and desparation. It is always good to eat foods higher in protein and fiber and less on the carbohydrates. Eggs, yogurt, and fruit are foods that contain high levels of fiber.
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6 tbs soy sauce
sugar (I use 2 tbs, add or reduce to taste, upwards of 4 tbs will still be delicious)
3 tbs sesame oil
3 tbs rice vinegar
2-4 tbs of water, depends on how strong you want it. I prefer stronger (2 tbs of water) since the noodles will dilute the flavor anyways
bit of dark soy sauce, not too much or it will overwhelm everything
grated/minced ginger, to taste. i like getting the kick of ginger, so i leave small chunks of it
sesame seeds
korean pepper powder (don't overdo it.. it's a summer meal afterall)
put it in a bowl and whisk
buckwheat soba noodles (dunk in ice water after making)
bell pepper
sliced green onions
sliced fried tofu
soft boiled quail egg (about 2 - 2.5 min in a cold start boil, 4 min to hard boil, don't overdo it or it will be chalky)
enoki mushrooms
fresh mung bean sprouts
you can add whatever the fuck you want on these noodles. I sometimes do soy glazed shiitake mushrooms, sliced tomatoes, thin sliced egg crepe, poached egg, cold seafood does well (shrimp & calamari are A+++), etc. etc. Make it your own!
my favorite dish to eat in the summer. very easy to make and also very cheap if you make it vegetarian. If you are feeling rich you can add seafood. With cold noodles I like to play with textures: crunch from fresh bell pepper and bean sprouts, the pop and ooze of soft boiled quail eggs, softness of buckwheat noodles.
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From what I've read, he was a plumber, tool maker, mortuary, mechanic, house painter, and he was rejected by the army. I also read that Tony Iommi was Ozzy's bully at school. zap zup
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Interview by Gabriella
How did you get started with music? Was it always your dream to be a musician?
Music was always really important to me, but when I was a teenager things were different. Birmingham wasn't and isn't a very rich area. It was rather dreadful and everybody in my family worked in factories, really mindless jobs that were physically exhausting. My father, my mother, my sisters, they all worked in factories in Birmingham and my dad thought I should become a tradesman, to get a chance and better myself, get away from the factories, you know. So when I finished school I tried to become a plumber. It didn't work out; it wasn't for me. Then I tried to become a bricklayer. It didn't work out. Then I tried to be a construction worker – same story. Everything I tried seemed to be doomed. I hated it, got sick of it really quick. Shortly before I left school, the Beatles got popular and they were my first addiction. I could switch off, forget my surroundings and dive into the music. It was something magical, almost a spiritual experience for me. Of course, my dad hated it. Way back then, the Beatles were revolutionaries and their music was revolutionary music. You know, they were considered to be a bad influence because they gave the kids ideas, the ideas to do something else with their lives than waste it in factories or become plumbers. For adults, it was a dangerous thing. But for us, they were heroes.
It's a bit hard to imagine that Black Sabbath was inspired by the Beatles....
I used to play in a band called Rarebreed, but the guitarist really annoyed me. Tony, Bill and Geezer were playing in bands, but they kind of split around the same time and that is how we all came together. It was really funny; I vaguely knew Tony. We went to the same school, but he was older than I am. One day I went into a record store and put up a sign saying "Ozzy Zig seeks gig" – I used to call myself Ozzy Zig because I thought it sounded cool and I thought everybody would start asking who Ozzy Zig was. Anyway, Tony showed up and I thought he'd think I'm a complete idiot, but he ended up joining our band. Right across the road from our rehearsal room was a cinema that showed mainly horror movies. One day I thought that it seemed strange that a lot of people spend so much money to see scary movies. Nobody really wanted to listen to us, so we decided to play slightly scary music. We liked it and, yeah, that's how it all got started. That's the story of Black Sabbath.
Many bands consider you to be the father of rock 'n' roll or metal. How does it feel to be their dad?
I really don't feel like the father of metal or rock, more like a big brother. And, of course, I'm really not proud of everybody who claims to be a fan and thinks I influenced them. I remember some terrible '80s pop bands who considered me their inspiration. One of them wanted me to sign all his Black Sabbath albums. By chance we were playing the same festival and that guy Limahl (from the '80s pop band Kajagoogoo) wanted me to sign all his albums. I told him to get lost and that I wanted no part of his music and no responsibility for his taste in music. Well, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your fans, unfortunately.
You seem to have a great sense of humor. A lot of stars tend to take themselves too seriously. Obviously, you're not one of them.
I love comedy. Comedy is great. I grew up with Monty Python, the Goodies and the Three Stooges. In a way, they all influenced me and I think an element of comedy is missing in the music business, especially in rock. A lot of the bands just take themselves too seriously. There are so many idiots in the music business and they all think their s*** doesn't stink, but smells of roses. You just can't take yourself too seriously. I don't take myself all that seriously. A little bit of comedy is healthy. You need to be able to laugh about yourself.
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From what I've read, he was a plumber, tool maker, mortuary, mechanic, house painter, and he was rejected by the army. I also read that Tony Iommi was Ozzy's bully at school.
thats a good interview!! i was surprised that he said, "I'm really not proud of everybody who claims to be a fan and thinks I influenced them." hahahah
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David O. Selznick's much-publicized search for the star of "Gone With the Wind" culminated in early 1939 when he presented to the world Vivien Leigh.
Or, rather, presented to most of the world: Leigh (1913-67) had spent the previous four years building up a reputation in Britain as a promising screen actress. Her work on film ended up truncated for various reasons, including regular returns to the stage and, less happily, repeated bouts of bipolar disorder and tuberculosis. By the time "Gone With the Wind" opened, half her film credits were already behind her.
Four of these early films have been restored for Blu-ray in a boxed set from Cohen Media Group in collaboration with the British Film Institute. For American moviegoers who got their first glimpse of Leigh on the porch of Tara, "The Vivien Leigh Anniversary Collection" offers an intriguing survey of a blossoming talent, no less glamorous but far more tentative.
Paradoxically, though, her gifts became clearer as her British film roles took her further from the lush melodrama that would make Scarlett O'Hara such an indelible screen presence. Leigh showed an increasing ability to convey ambivalence even as her parts grew frothier.
The series begins unpromisingly with "Fire Over England" (1937), one of the two films that sold Selznick on her as Scarlett. (The other was "A Yank at Oxford," which featured a screenwriting touch-up by F. Scott Fitzgerald but is not included here.) A turgid costume drama that builds a sort of platonic love triangle around Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), "Fire" marked Leigh's first pairing with Laurence Olivier, who buckles all sorts of swash as a sea raider. Not even the fact that the two stars, married to others at the time, began an on-set affair is enough to enliven the stilted pageantry, in which Elizabeth slaps her wasp-waisted lady-in-waiting (Leigh) and calls her "a flaunting flibbertigibbet." Where's F. Scott when you need him?
Leigh was billed behind Robson in "Fire" but moves up to leading-lady status in the spy film "Dark Journey," which was released less than a month later. Here, she hops across Europe as Madeleine Goddard, a French double agent masquerading as a stylish dress-shop owner in the waning days of World War I. Leigh herself said she could make little sense of the script, and her confusion over the cloak-and-dagger intrigue is understandable. But she has a charming rapport with Conrad Veidt, who plays Madeleine's paramour and an enemy spy, and the director Victor Saville sees to it that the film's 77 minutes fly by.
While the two previous films used earlier wars as proxies for the turmoil that seemed all but inevitable in Europe, "Storm in a Teacup" makes its political points more deftly by folding them into a provincial romantic comedy. Here, Leigh's character has returned to the quaint Scottish town of Baikie to help her father win an election. His tyrannical, almost fascistic dealings with a pathetic plebeian and her dog, however, earn the ire of a crusading newspaper reporter, played by a jarringly young Rex Harrison. And although breezy comedy does not play to Leigh's strengths, she shows considerable growth as she depicts her conflicting impulses toward her family, her conscience and her heart.
This ambivalence gets an even stronger workout in "St. Martin's Lane," a smaller-scale 1938 melodrama about love and betrayal among the buskers of London's streets. Leigh dances and cavorts gamely as a gamine named Liberty. Along the way, she draws the attention of a self-destructive older street performer (Charles Laughton) and a swanky composer (Harrison) who introduces Liberty to the upper classes.
(Theater fans will relish a rare appearance from the legendary director Tyrone Guthrie as a lanky street musician.)
By this point in her young career, Leigh – whose contract with the British producer-director Alexander Korda stipulated she could devote half of each year to stage work – had learned how to draw from her characters a range of emotions, from grasping ambition to coquettish charm to heartlessness to remorse: a perfect template for Scarlett O'Hara. No wonder Paramount Pictures kept "St. Martin's Lane" out of American theaters (where it was eventually renamed "Sidewalks of London") for a year.
By that point, "Gone With the Wind" had opened. The saucer-eyed beauty at its center needed no further introduction.
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This site was closed even though we were there before 4:00 in the afternoon, I was very disappointed that no one was there to talk to. We had no idea where to put the trailer and just had to drop it wherever we could find space.
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Easy to find. I used the 24 hr drop off.
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This was our SECOND location (Rock Blvd) on this day for our pick up point.
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It is NOT convenient at all. Especially as it dispatches large trucks and trailers onto a very busy street. I am glad my move is over and appreciate the assistance we received at the Rock Blvd, Sparks NV location, but I will NEVER use UHAUL again….
We have choices out there and UHAUL is NOT MY CHOICE …. do yourself a favor & find another company to rent from.
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