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Nestled in the heart of the Langdale Valley, Brimstone is the newest addition to the Langdale Estate, a small leisure complex that offers self-catering accommodation and timeshares in the English Lake District.
Brimstone is different. The hotel was opened this May, so is very new, and was opened with the intention of offering the best rooms in the Lake District. The hotel itself is very impressive. A slick, new building constructed from Lakeland slate, fitting in with the surroundings very well. It has just a total of sixteen rooms and suites making it a very small and comfortable place to stay. It's situated on three floors, with the ground floor being the underground car park, and a lift connecting all floors, with automatically opening doors along the way. This makes getting around so easy, with step-free access all the way from the car to the rooms, which was great for us, in terms of getting our luggage to our rooms.
The rooms are seriously luxurious and modern. They'd definitely be a hit with anyone liking technology, with light buttons instead of switches to adjust the lights to the occasion, from 'perky' when you're getting up for the morning, to 'tinkle' if you were to wake up in the night. There are two interactive televisions in the room, should you wish to tweet from the TV, and a whole host of TV channels and iPlayer available through the television. Even the curtains are opertated electronically. All these gadgets don't feel gimmicky. The room is decorated very tastefully in subtle greys, with a spotless white bathroom. It is clear that every detail in the rooms at Brimstone has been very carefully considered and is of top quality.
One of the most unusual features about Brimstone is that there is no Reception desk. Guests are looked after by the hotel's Hosts, who are available by telephone at any time, for literally anything you could want. There is just one communal room, the Reading Room, which is great. It has plenty of comfy seating, a TV and a good selection of books, magazines and newspapers. It also has a back wall bar with refreshments, including a Nespresso machine, bottled water, wine, beer and soft drinks available free and in unlimited quantities to guests at any time of the day or night. There are also cakes and fruit throughout the day, sandwiches to take out with you for the day available in the morning and cheese and biscuits to enjoy after dinner. They really have thought of everything, and this is a very popular service with guests, understandably. I was touched when Harriet, our host, brought us gluten free brownies especially to take out with us for the day.
There were three different hosts on duty whilst we were staying and all were great. They're there to help with luggage, bring you breakfast in your room, call to see if you would like a turn down service, and help you with any other needs you might have.
The Langdale Estate is a great place to stay in the Lake District, particularly if you enjoy outdoor activities. It is around 15 minutes drive from Ambleside, the nearest town, but is a very short distance from many of the finest walks in Lakeland. There are also plenty of activities on the Estate, with a swimming pool and spa on site. The Spa is absolutely brilliant. It's just a minute's walk from Brimstone to get into the main building. On the first night, I enjoyed a manicure and pedicure with Kelly in the Spa. It was lovely to have an evening appointment, as the spa was quiet and I could relax and chat to Kelly, who was a complete delight and did a wonderful job of my treatment using OPI nail polishes. I had so many compliments afterwards. On the second night, I had an Anne Semonin Facial with Rachel. Again, this treatment was fantastic. Rachel was just lovely: very experienced and knowledgeable, and gave me so much information on the gorgeous Anne Semonin products, including a huge range of samples to try at home.
While staying at Brimstone, it makes sense to dine on the Langstone Estate, unless you fancy a fairly long drive elsewhere. There isn't anywhere in Brimstone to eat, as all the restaurants and kitchens are over in the main building. Breakfast is great however, as guests at Brimstone are given a card in the room on which to choose what you want to eat, and leave it outside the room for the morning. There are 15 minute slots for delivery, and we found our food arriving bang on time. There is a really good choice of food available and the quality is good and there is no extra service charge for this.
There are several dinner options available on the Estate. We dined in Purdey's Restaurant, the flagship restaurant for each night of our stay. It is a relaxed, unstuffy place to dine with very attentive, friendly service. There is a good selection of wines and the staff are keen to advise. Portions are generous – so much so that we couldn't manage dessert. We retired to the Reading Room at Brimstone for an espresso and found other residents in there enjoying wine and cheese after dinner.
What is clear about Brimstone is how great the staff are. It is particularly nice to speak to staff who clearly love their jobs and care about where they work and their guests.
Brimstone is a fantastic place to stay in the Lakes. The rooms are just gorgeous and extremely comfortable. We particularly liked how autonomous you feel staying here – it's a hotel room with hotel service, but a bit more freedom and privacy than some hotels to relax and do as you please during your stay. It's so private, you could get away with hardly seeing a person during your stay if you wished. We met a couple staying who were on their third visit since May, they loved it so much. Have they succeeded in creating the best rooms in the Lakes? A good number of guests we encountered seemed to think so.


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Summerville High School senior Nina Mojica is class president, cadet commander of the Navy JROTC, a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, school advisory council and French National Honor Society.
And on top of that, she still finds time to gather groups of friends for community service.
Its a lot more enjoyable when you have a huge group of people, she said about volunteering at places such as the SPCA and local homeless shelters.
Nina was one of 11 Navy JROTC cadets in the nation to receive the Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement last month.
This prestigious award recognizes leadership, scholarship and community service. The Legion of Valor is the oldest congressionally chartered veterans organization in the country and is made up of veterans from all branches of the military services who have received the Medal of Honor or their respective services highest award for gallantry.
Nina was surprised with the award at the Sept. 24 Dorchester 2 school board meeting. Her mother, Michelle Mojica, said they told Nina she was accepting an award on behalf of the unit. She had no clue she would become part of the prestigious organization.
Col. Claude Davis, the senior naval instructor at Summerville High School, said it was only natural to nominate Nina for the award. She has been involved in Navy JROTC since her freshman year and was recently awarded the highest rank in the school.
Shes been excelling her entire time. We can tell shes headed for greatness, he said.
When asked why she is so involved in school and in the community, Nina replied, Its important to strive for things that are bigger than yourself. You can surprise yourself with what you can accomplish.
Michelle Mojica said she feels blessed to have a daughter such as Nina who is a great role model for her 12-year-old son, Antonio.
Nina just tries so hard not to disappoint people. She expects a lot out of herself, she said.
Mojica said she and her husband, David, could tell their daughter was independent since she was a baby.
By no means is she a goody, goody, she added with a laugh.
Nina plans to pursue a career as a neonatal intensive-care nurse and will be the first in her family to attend college. She said she is applying to the University of South Carolina, University of North Carolina, University of Florida and Georgia State University.
She is awaiting the results of a Navy nursing scholarship she applied for that would cover four years of tuition.
Never give up, even when you face adversity. Continue to keep going even though someone doubts you. Youre the only person who can stop you, Nina advises her peers.
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Summerville High School senior Nina Mojica inspects Robert Fricks uniform during Navy JROTC class.×
Summerville High School senior Nina Mojica was one of 11 Navy JROTC cadets to receive the Valor of Honor Bronze Cross for Achievement.×
Nina was one of 11 Navy JROTC cadets in the nation to receive the Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement.×
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Access to Marshall finances debated
HUNTINGTON -- The American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia is questioning how transparent Marshall University's budget really is, claiming the administration has put up roadblocks when it comes to finding detailed financial reports.
"This is indeed an issue about transparency and being forthcoming with information," said Christine Barr, a staff representative with AFT-WV, by email last week.
But Matt Turner, Marshall's chief of staff, and Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Heuton said the university's basic budget documents through 2005 are and have been available on the Office of Finance website, similar to what West Virginia University makes available on its website.
However, it lacks the detail that two professors were seeking when they filed Freedom of Information Act requests in late April and May. Those two professors, Dallas Brozik and James Sottile, want detailed budget figures from across university divisions and departments, for which there are about 150.
Interest in Marshall's finances took on a whole new meaning this spring, as cuts in state funding put new pressures on the university's budget. Some faculty members have questioned spending priorities and seek to take a deeper look at where the money goes.
"It is PUBLIC information; our members have a right to review it, and their reasons for requesting it should not become the story," Barr said in the email. "The question readers should be asking is why such financial information is not readily available, or why is Marshall University making it so difficult to review the information."
AFT-WV and both professors filed lawsuits in Cabell Circuit Court June 7 to try to get Marshall to comply with the FOIA requests. They claim the university is attempting to charge outlandish fees for three to five years worth of financial information the two men are seeking.
"When one requests 'information for expenditures by the department/division level for all colleges, the administration, and the athletic department for the last five years,' and the university claims that your request is not specific enough, but that they will produce the information when they receive your check for $54,296.00, it is absolutely an issue of transparency," Barr said.
Turner agrees the professors were seeking public information and there should be access. But he also said it's not as simple as the complainants are making it out to be. Some documents, he said, are not readily available to just post online or send in an email. Others that were requested by Brozik and Sottile would have to be created through the compilation of several documents, he said.
In addition to the basic budget documents that are available on Marshall's Finance website, Turner also said that some of what Sottile requested already exists on the West Virginia Auditor's website, through a VISTA account. It is available for the general public and provides vendor information, how many payments have been made, when the payments were made and for how much and the total amount paid to that vendor. However, there is no breakdown on the auditor's site by department or information about what was purchased.
The budget documents that are available include operating and nonoperating revenues and expenses, broken down into about a dozen broad categories such as tuition, state appropriations, utilities and salaries, and wages.
What is lacking is easy access to department-level budgets, which include revenues from program-specific student fees and such expenses as faculty travel.
Heuton said she sympathizes with those requesting the documents, calling it a struggle to make data digestible. But, she said, it is a product of the accounting system Marshall uses called funds management. It allows departments to manage their own cash flow, though the university has auditors in place to make sure there isn't abuse. Still, she said the figures she can provide are mostly revenues and expenses, without a breakdown of details.
"It's a goal I have, but the system has not been designed that way," Heuton said. "But I think there is a way to get there."
Heuton's comment isn't off base, said Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Boettner, whose group works toward better financial accountability and openness in state government, said access to detailed financial information is difficult to get throughout the state.
"It's been sort of a problem in all the agencies in state government," he said. "Basic information is easier to get, but if you want to get down to the details ... it becomes very difficult."
But Boettner isn't putting all the blame on data processing systems. He also said there seems to be a prevalence of people wanting to "pass the buck."
"Nobody wants to serve as the central source of detailed budget information," he said. "It's really a detriment to increasing accountability and transparency."
Boettner said he wants to see a more uniform set of disclosure standards that spell out what truly must be open and accessible to the public. He added that access to data is sometimes based on relationships and "that's not how it should be at all."
The best way to get a pulse on some of these things is to see what is going on in other states, Boettner said. Budget information for Ohio State University, for example, was easy to find but provided broad revenue and expense figures similar what Marshall and WVU have listed.
At Ohio University, the budget information available online provides much greater depth. It includes breakdowns from a number of areas, including athletics, dining, residential housing and parking.
What also is interesting is that Ohio University is transitioning from a decentralized approach to a budget model that assigns greater control over resource decisions to academic colleges and deans -- similar to the accounting system Marshall has now and wants to move away from.
"Under this budget approach, revenue-generating areas are referred to as 'responsibility centers' with all or most of the institution's revenues and support costs assigned to them," states a description of the budgeting model on Ohio University's website. "(The) underlying premise is that the decentralized nature of the model entrusts academic leaders with more control of financial resources, leading to more informed decision-making and better results or outcomes for the University as a whole."
Heuton and Kopp proposed changing to a centralized accounting model back in April, saying the current model made it difficult to know how departments were spending money. It was tabled by the Board of Governors, partly because of the administration's unpopular decision earlier that month to sweep departmental accounts into a central holding account for assessment. It was done without prior notice to faculty or deans.
That led to a vote of no confidence by faculty and a call by the board for Kopp to rebuild trust. That also led to the creation of a budget work group, which included constituents from across the university who helped the administration reach a balanced budget that was approved last week. Most of those involved have said the group was helpful in learning about some of the inner workings of the budget.
"Personally, I am satisfied with what the group achieved in the given time-frame," said Shane Tomblin, an associate professor in the College of Business who was elected by the Faculty Senate to represent the faculty. "It was an ad hoc group tasked with completion of a short-term budget proposal. The information provided was adequate for that immediate objective. However, greater transparency will need to be the goal of the permanent version of the (budget work group) with expanded membership."
Outgoing Student Body President Ray Harrell Jr. agrees with Tomblin's assessment about the working group.
"To my knowledge, any documents or information requested were made available to the group," Harrell said in an emailed statement. "This process allowed each of us, as members, able to take ample information back to our constituencies and follow up on their inquiries."
What's available, what's not
What is there: Marshall University's basic budget documents are available on the Office of Finance website, www.marshall.edu/finance or www.marshall.edu/finance/budget-services. Those budgets include operating and nonoperating revenues and expenses, broken down into about a dozen broad categories such as tuition, state appropriations, utilities and salaries and wages.
What is not there: Links to any college- or department-level budgets, which also are not listed on those specific websites.
What is there: The West Virginia State Auditor's website, www.wvsao.gov, includes a link to a program called VISTA. It is free for the general public to sign up and provides state employee compensation and vendor payment information for every agency in West Virginia. Under Marshall University, there is a substantial list of vendors who have been paid by Marshall and includes how many payments have been made, when the payments were made and for how much and the total amount paid to that vendor.
What is not there: A breakdown by department or information about what goods or services were purchased.
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Before you get your hopes up, Goldblog, via Aluf Benn, interprets it as a sign of increasing anti-Iran hawkishness in the Israeli cabinet. Netanyahu did not like the Mossad's recent statement of the success of Stuxnet and the impact of sanctions.
Before you get your hopes up, Goldblog, via Aluf Benn, interprets it as a sign of increasing anti-Iran hawkishness in the Israeli cabinet. Netanyahu did not like the Mossad's recent statement of the success of Stuxnet and the impact of sanctions.
Even when a dentist kills an adored lion, and everyone is furious, there's loftier righteousness to be had.
Now is the point in the story of Cecil the lion—amid non-stop news coverage and passionate social-media advocacy—when people get tired of hearing about Cecil the lion. Even if they hesitate to say it.
But Cecil fatigue is only going to get worse. On Friday morning, Zimbabwe's environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri, called for the extradition of the man who killed him, the Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. Muchinguri would like Palmer to be "held accountable for his illegal action"—paying a reported $50,000 to kill Cecil with an arrow after luring him away from protected land. And she's far from alone in demanding accountability. This week, the Internet has served as a bastion of judgment and vigilante justice—just like usual, except that this was a perfect storm directed at a single person. It might be called an outrage singularity.
The new version of Apple's signature media software is a mess. What are people with large MP3 libraries to do?
When the developer Erik Kemp designed the first metadata system for MP3s in 1996, he provided only three options for attaching text to the music. Every audio file could be labeled with only an artist, song name, and album title.
Kemp's system has since been augmented and improved upon, but never replaced. Which makes sense: Like the web itself, his schema was shipped, good enough, and an improvement on the vacuum which preceded it. Those three big tags, as they're called, work well with pop and rock written between 1960 and 1995. This didn't prevent rampant mislabeling in the early days of the web, though, as anyone who remembers Napster can tell you. His system stumbles even more, though, when it needs to capture hip hop's tradition of guest MCs or jazz's vibrant culture of studio musicianship.
A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness.
As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I've had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovable, tormented Kurt Vonnegut—will always be one of my favorites. Kurt was a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1960s, and participated in the first big study I did as a member of the university's psychiatry department. I was examining the anecdotal link between creativity and mental illness, and Kurt was an excellent case study.
He was intermittently depressed, but that was only the beginning. His mother had suffered from depression and committed suicide on Mother's Day, when Kurt was 21 and home on military leave during World War II. His son, Mark, was originally diagnosed with schizophrenia but may actually have bipolar disorder. (Mark, who is a practicing physician, recounts his experiences in two books, The Eden Express and Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, in which he reveals that many family members struggled with psychiatric problems. "My mother, my cousins, and my sisters weren't doing so great," he writes. "We had eating disorders, co-dependency, outstanding warrants, drug and alcohol problems, dating and employment problems, and other 'issues.' ")
The Vermont senator's revolutionary zeal has met its moment.
There's no way this man could be president, right? Just look at him: rumpled and scowling, bald pate topped by an entropic nimbus of white hair. Just listen to him: ranting, in his gravelly Brooklyn accent, about socialism. Socialism!
And yet here we are: In the biggest surprise of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, this thoroughly implausible man, Bernie Sanders, is a sensation.
He is drawing enormous crowds—11,000 in Phoenix, 8,000 in Dallas, 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa—the largest turnout of any candidate from any party in the first-to-vote primary state. He has raised $15 million in mostly small donations, to Hillary Clinton's $45 million—and unlike her, he did it without holding a single fundraiser. Shocking the political establishment, it is Sanders—not Martin O'Malley, the fresh-faced former two-term governor of Maryland; not Joe Biden, the sitting vice president—to whom discontented Democratic voters looking for an alternative to Clinton have turned.
The authors in the running for Britain's most prestigious literary award come from seven countries and include seven women writers.
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards, was announced Wednesday. For the second year, the prize was open to writers of any nationality who publish books in English in the U.K., and this year five American writers made the list of 13 contenders, chosen by five judges from a pool of 156 total works.
The U.S. is, in fact, the most well-represented country, with other entrants hailing from Great Britain, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ireland, and India. There are three debut novelists and one former winner on the list, and women writers outnumber men seven to six. From dystopian and political novels to a multitude of iterations on the family drama, the selections capture the ever-changing human experience in very different ways.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
A newly discovered artifact buried with one of Jamestown's most prominent leaders suggests he could have been a crypto-Catholic.
After 400 years in the Virginia dirt, the box came out of the ground looking like it had been plucked from the ocean. A tiny silver brick, now encrusted with a green patina and rough as sandpaper. Buried beneath it was a human skeleton. The remains would later be identified as those of Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the most prominent leaders at Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. But it was the box, which appeared to be an ancient Catholic reliquary, that had archaeologists bewildered and astonished.
"One of the major surprises was the discovery of this mysterious small silver box," said James Horn, the president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. "I have to say, we're still trying to figure this out. You have the very strange situation of a Catholic reliquary being found with the leader of the first Protestant church in the country."
A controversial treatment shows promise, especially for victims of trauma.
It's straight out of a cartoon about hypnosis: A black-cloaked charlatan swings a pendulum in front of a patient, who dutifully watches and ping-pongs his eyes in turn. (This might be chased with the intonation, "You are getting sleeeeeepy...")
Unlike most stereotypical images of mind alteration—"Psychiatric help, 5 cents" anyone?—this one is real. An obscure type of therapy known as EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for people who have experienced severe forms of trauma.
Here's the idea: The person is told to focus on the troubling image or negative thought while simultaneously moving his or her eyes back and forth. To prompt this, the therapist might move his fingers from side to side, or he might use a tapping or waving of a wand. The patient is told to let her mind go blank and notice whatever sensations might come to mind. These steps are repeated throughout the session.
Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject.
MANCHESTER, Mich.—Had Daniella Kippnick followed in the footsteps of the hundreds of millions of students who have earned university degrees in the past millennium, she might be slumping in a lecture hall somewhere while a professor droned. But Kippnick has no course lectures. She has no courses to attend at all. No classroom, no college quad, no grades. Her university has no deadlines or tenure-track professors.
Instead, Kippnick makes her way through different subject matters on the way to a bachelor's in accounting. When she feels she's mastered a certain subject, she takes a test at home, where a proctor watches her from afar by monitoring her computer and watching her over a video feed. If she proves she's competent—by getting the equivalent of a B—she passes and moves on to the next subject.
Members of Colombia's younger generation say they "will not torture for tradition."
MEDELLÍN, Colombia—On a scorching Saturday in February, hundreds of young men and women in Medellín stripped down to their swimsuit bottoms, slathered themselves in black and red paint, and sprawled out on the hot cement in Los Deseos Park in the north of the city. From my vantage point on the roof of a nearby building, the crowd of seminude protesters formed the shape of a bleeding bull—a vivid statement against the centuries-old culture of bullfighting in Colombia.
It wasn't long ago that Colombia was among the world's most important countries for bullfighting, due to the quality of its bulls and its large number of matadors. In his 1989 book Colombia: Tierra de Toros ("Colombia: Land of Bulls"), Alberto Lopera chronicled the maturation of the sport that Spanish conquistadors had introduced to South America in the 16th century, from its days as an unorganized brouhaha of bulls and booze in colonial plazas to a more traditional Spanish-style spectacle whose fans filled bullfighting rings across the country.
In a StoryCorps animation, Alex Landau recalls his harrowing experience being pulled over by Denver police.
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The Magpies have struggled with injuries in recent months - but now they have been boosted by the news that they have a full squad fit again.
"We are looking well and Hatem Ben Arfa has come back," Pardew told Sky Sports.
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So i got the front end of a Weiger .223 barrel and AK-74 parts back from restoreit, who re-profiled the Weiger barrel and pressed and pinned all the stuff on, also headspaced it. Awesome job he did
So here is everything Im working with, all laid out. After I took the pic, i decided to use an Ace folder instead of the wood stock.
So first thing I did was mark where i needed to remove metal from the Cold Steel Solutions 80% blank. I used an AK-Builder.com 5.45 flat, then i checked everything with my calipers and ak blueprints of course....
Then it was dremel time!
Once all that was done, I used the tape method to locate the trunnion holes, and drilled and riveted.
Then i put the AK-Builder Ace folding rear trunnion in that sucker, and used a ball-pean hammer.
Then I drilled and mounted the mag catch.
Yugo pistol grip, stock mounted just to see it.
Then more fun stuff - marking and drilling the FCG holes, did it right the first time! yay!
After that it came time to put some rails in it.
Then after some heat treating, stuck the front end in it for a mock up to see how she's gonna look. Still need to get a center brace rivet, different (US made) FCG, and a retainer plate.
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By MichaelA. from USA on 2009-04-22 03:30:00Things I liked:EVERYTHING! This is an awesome gun & one of my favorite looking pellet pistols of all! Good power, good accuracy, all metal, & just gorgeous! YES... It's pricey, but it's worth it! I have the silver one with both the wood & the black grips. I keep the black ones on it & put the wood ones away so they don't get damaged.
Things I would have changed:The price. It's worth it, but it would be nice if it were a little cheaper.
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By James from USA on 2012-08-04 00:35:27Things I liked:Very nice looking handgun. Seems to have alot of quality and heft.
Things I would have changed:The grip safety. "Umarex" has had a problem with it causing low co2 output and mis-fires. Sometimes it does not fire at all. This problem has been around for a long time. It's time for them to fix this problem or remove it from there offering.
What others should know:I was reluctant to buy this handgun because of the negative reviews concerning the grip safety and because I also had a problem with this same model some years ago. Sure enough, the very first time I went to use the gun it did not work. The same thing happened several years ago. I would have thought by now they would have addressed the problem. I returned that one and received another one that did the same thing. I then returned it for a full refund. This most recent purchase has also been returned,but for an entirely different pistol. I guess as long as the manufacturer keeps selling this pistol they won't bother fixing the problem. LET THE BUYER BE WARE !!!
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A 21-year-old Aiken man was detained for driving under the influence on Tuesday after he was found sleeping in his vehicle at a stop sign, according to the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
Dillon Patrick Dennis, of Banks Mill Road, was placed in the Aiken County detention center, where he remained on Tuesday afternoon.
Officers were called to the Walmart parking lot on Whiskey Road about 2:40 a.m. on Tuesday, according to a report. There, they found a black Lexus with the headlights on and the engine running. The vehicle was sitting at a stop sign on the far end of the parking lot.
Dennis was asleep in the driver's seat, and officers had to make several attempts to wake him up, according to the report.
Dennis "appeared dazed" and had drool coming from the corner of his mouth, according to the report. He was unable to comprehend officers' questions and had difficulty completing divided tasks such as answering a question and looking for his paperwork, police said.
Dennis failed multiple field sobriety tests and was arrested. At Aiken Public Safety headquarters, he was given a Breathalyzer, which returned a reading of 0.0, according to the report. Dennis was then taken to a hospital for a urine sample but he refused.
On the way to the detention center, Dennis told offers he "had an addiction with benzos, and that he had taken around 12 or 13 pills" just minutes before his interaction with officers, according to the report.
Police: Man found sleeping at stop sign
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Two young children run around with corndogs. Caramel apple lollipops pass from hand to hand. This is not the picture that immediately pops into one's head when they think of a practice session for a rock band like OnceOver.
This band has been around for almost 15 years, frontman Steve Dwyer said in a recent interview, so the atmosphere is far different from the traditional rock 'n' roll setting.
"If our band was a kid, it would be getting their temps," Dwyer said. "It would start getting their license soon."
This year, the band plans to release its sixth album, "White Raven," alongside Tropic Bombs, another band that Dwyer and bandmate Nick Archer play for. The release concert is slated for June 20 at Toledo's Mainstreet Bar & Grill, 141 Main St.
The original OnceOver was founded in 2001, and has experienced multiple fan and membership changes throughout the years.
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The Dwyer brothers have a musical past, as their father is an alumnus of Berkley University's music program. He holds a bachelor's degree in composition and a master's in guitar performance.
"We grew up in environments that were very music-savvy," Dwyer said.
"Most people kinda have a passion for music from a super young age; I was one of those people," de Saint Victor said. "I started playing guitar in maybe fifth grade and I spent countless hours playing when I was younger and just never quit."
De Saint Victor and Dwyer said their fellow members have little or no formal training for the instruments they chose to play in this band.
"[Dwyer] had high school stuff at least, like orchestra, choir, that kind of stuff," de Saint Victor said.
"[Archer] took a little bit of guitar lessons when he was a kid but, other than that, I think it's safe to say we were all self-taught," Dwyer said.
Dwyer said some of the band's mainstay fans go to great lengths to show their loyalty, from bringing their now-adult children to shows to getting tattoos of the band's logo on their bodies.
"I would say we've always had this core set of fans that are super die-hard but on the outer shell of that there's been a lot of weird fluctuation," Dwyer said.
"We're like 30 and people our age don't really go to shows," he added.
"The fanbase stays the same age, almost," de Saint Victor said.
The group also jokes they have had their share of interesting fan experiences, from injuries to pregnancies and all sorts of strange behavior in between.
De Saint Victor said OnceOver's current challenges are different from the challenges of younger bands, which fight over creative differences or get tired of seeing one another.
"We've been together for so long the challenges now are way different than the challenges when we were 20," de Saint Victor said. "Everybody's got kids. It's mostly an issue now with scheduling and making time in our lives to still do this."
The new album focuses on overcoming life challenges, from death to addiction to dealing with bullies in the professional world.
"Kind of assessing and taking a step back, understanding some of the darker parts of your life and learning to grow from them," Dwyer said. "Whether that be the death of a family member or a personal struggle and overcoming what seems to be insurmountable."
The album begins with a song titled "The Death of You," and ends with "The Locus of Control."
"[The first track is] semi-inspirational but comes from a dark place," Dwyer said. "The end of the album is kind of a positive note where it's like you're in control of your life."
Musical inspiration comes from the members of the band coming together, not necessarily all at once, to conceptualize, write and play.
"I'd say our songs come from an inception point," Dwyer said. "We work on songs together but normally it comes from one or two ideas that kind of sprout something."
"Every song is definitely not started and ended with everybody's input, which is probably the way it should be," de Saint Victor said.
Paul said their goal with this album is not fame and fortune, but sharing their music with the audience that made them the band they are today.
"We're not trying, at this point, to make money off of it," Paul said. "We're really just into getting people into the music and kind of networking with people and bands."
The group will work on a better touring schedule, within drivable distance.
"We have little pockets of fans in a lot of the cities around us," Archer said. "This year, we're trying to make a little more of an effort to play out of town."
The next year will also see a little bit of separation followed by endless hours dedicated to their next record, which is already in process.
"It's some of our best stuff ever, I would say," Dwyer said. "It needs a lot of work and we're not that far into it."
"As soon as we release an album, it just repeats," de Saint Victor added.
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The visiting Bulldogs bit the Hounds with three big plays, scoring its touchdowns on two long pass plays and a fumble return.
Other than that, the statistics were similar. Mary Persons rushed for 69 yards on 37 carries and completed seven of 15 passes for 189 yards. Jones County ran for 111 yards on 36 carries and completed two of nine passes for 26 yards.
Take away the 100 yards on the two touchdown receptions by Mary Persons speedster Akebren Ralls, and the Bulldogs had only 158 yards of total offense to 137 by the Greyhounds.
But the visitors did burn Jones County with those two plays – a 49-yard bomb from Cal King to Ralls on Mary Persons' second play from scrimmage for an initial 7-0 lead, and then a 51-yard touchdown when the two hooked up on a screen pass on the Bulldogs' first possession of the second half. And they added a 55-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Keri Brown in the second quarter to give them all the points they needed to improve to 2-0.
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One of my favorite stories is about a Navy officer who always dreamed of commanding a battleship. He finally achieved that dream and received commission of the fleet's newest, proudest ship.
One stormy night, as the ship plowed through the seas, the captain was on bridge duty when, off to the port, he saw a strange light rapidly approaching his own vessel.
Immediately, he ordered the signalman to flash a message that said, "Alter your course 10 degrees to the south." Only a moment passed before the reply came: "Alter your course 10 degrees north."
Determined that his ship would take a backseat to no other, the captain snapped out the order: "Alter course 10 degrees — I'm the captain."
The response beamed back was, "Alter your course 10 degrees — I'm Seaman 3rd Class Jones."
Infuriated, the captain grabbed the signal light and fired off, "Alter your course — I am a battleship."
The reply came back, "Alter your course. I am a lighthouse."
Sometimes, being headstrong and belligerent can cause a person some trouble. One such example appears in the Old Testament, where we read about Jacob. He had been successful throughout his life — at least, according to society's definition. All his life, however, he had been a scoundrel, a conniver. He was a schemer, a manipulator and was quite greedy. He didn't care what it took to get what he wanted. By one method or another, he had acquired great wealth and status.
You may remember how, in the Old Testament, Jacob had manipulated his twin brother, Esau, to make him give up his right to the family inheritance for a bowl of soup.
You may remember how Jacob outwitted his blind father, Isaac, by putting on sheepskin to trick him into thinking Jacob was Esau who had come to receive the family inheritance.
Then, in fear of revenge, he fled home and got as far away from Esau as he could because Esau had vowed to kill his brother.
Later on, Jacob turned the tables on his father-in-law, Laban, who had tricked Jacob into working for him for free for 14 years. Jacob later turned the tables on him with his own trickery, and became quite wealthy at Laban's expense.
Yes, Jacob had done some nasty things, and had gotten some important people very angry with him. For him to enjoy his wealth, he had to flee for his life and live in another country.
Do you know people like that — people who don't care who gets in the way, or who gets hurt as long as they get what they want? They leave a wake of emotional destruction behind them. They enjoy that they are getting what they want, no matter the cost to others. My heart goes out to people struggling to fill some void in their life, a void created by some hurt or neglect forced upon them.
The unspoken question that drives many of us is, "Am I happy?" If the answer is "no," you seek ways to change things to become happy.
Unfortunately, most people seek change in the wrong way. What usually gets changed is their job, spouse, clothes or where they live. They keep bouncing around from one thing to another, hoping the next discovery will make them happy. Unfortunately, this kind of searching continues to turn up short-term happiness or purely empty results, and never addresses the deeper need within them.
My question for you is, "Are you happy?"
If you are, I celebrate with you.
If not, I ask you to ponder why you are not.
Material possessions do not make one happy, although they can sometimes help. Rather, relationships bring the most happiness and joy into life.
But the ultimate relationship — one with Jesus Christ — brings the ultimate joy.
Give thanks to God.
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Sorry Beliebers and Beliebettes, there's no Justin Bieber sex tape.
It seems the whole "stolen personal footage" scandal was just a silly promotional stunt for Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat" music video.
Here's how the whole sorry story breaks down:
Bieber claimed a couple of days back that he had a laptop and a camera stolen at a show, and tweeted about having "a lot of personal footage" on the "stolen" equipment. Thoughts immediately turned to sex tapes and other spicy possibilities.
A day goes by and an anonymous Twitter user named "gexwy" shows up and starts harassing Bieber, alleging to be the guy who stole his shit. He released two entirely innocuous videos of Justin Bieber to prove he was "legit," and promised to release the really scandalous stuff today at noon.
Justin Bieber himself somehow managed to local this nobody's tweets from the deluge of @'s he gets every second, and tweeted back: "No matter what you have and what you post tomorrow i know my fans wont leave me. screw it. #toostrong"
What could it be?! "TOMORROW PUNK!" replied gexwy before signing off.
So this is where it falls apart.
Fans of the Bieb noticed that, around the same time, Nicki Minaj also tweeted about a "BIG surprise" today at noon (as did Justin). And then a screencap from the music video for the Bieber-Minaj collaboration "Beauty and a Beat" suddenly showed up on VEVO (see photo). And Perez Hilton also dropped an "exclusive" about "scandalous footage" from Bieber's stolen gear that looks suspiciously set in a similar scene as the "Beauty and a Beat" video.
And Bieber is known to fancy himself as something of a punk.
Put all that together and you have one really lame marketing campaign.
Tisk, tisk Bieber. Next time you cry "stolen personal footage," have the decency to be naked.
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My name is Lorraine and I lost my son Ben at 28 weeks gestation on 28/10/03. I had a concealed placental abruption. I arrived at the ER in pain, thinking it was my gallbladder as I had just found out a month earlier that I had gallstones. When the Dr saw me about 15-20 minutes later I was in agony and I still had no clue what was going on because I wasn't bleeding at all. He sent me up to Birth Suite and an ultrasound confirmed that my baby died. I remember he kicked me in triage of ED so he was alive up until then. I keep thinking if they had seen me sooner then he may be alive today. I also blame myself a lot because for a couple of days before it happened I noticed that he wasn't moving around in there as much but I just blew it off and didn't do anything about it. I feel so bad about that. But I do know that things happen in life for a reason.
My BP was 142/100 when I arrived at ED and it got higher after I delivered him too.
He was beautiful and weighed 930g.(just over 2 pounds). I miss him so much. We decided in Jan to start trying again and I got pregnant last month but sadly just had an early miscarriage at 5 weeks last week. Things are pretty bad at the moment and I am feeling discouraged I guess
I have a son who is 4. I had absolutely no problems with BP in that pregnancy and Ben was with the same father too. Anyone else have PE with a second pg and not first?
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Clay Marvin Spradlin, 84 years of age, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
Born April 21, 1928, at Estill, he was the son of the late William R. (Willie) and Hazel Eunice Music Spradlin. Clay was a member of the Fitzpatrick First Baptist Church. He proudly served his country during World War II. He was also a coal miner, being employed with Martin County Coal.
Clay is survived by his wife, Evelyn Fraley Spradlin; two sons, Clay Dwain Spradlin and his wife, Marlene, of Stambaugh, and Paul Stephen Spradlin and his wife, Josie, of Louisa; two daughters, Patricia Spradlin Welch, of Prestonsburg, and Ruth Spradlin Gray and her husband, Denver, of Louisville; and five grandchildren, Jennifer Osberg and her husband, Jeff, Sandra Gray, Benjamin Welch, Clay Stephen Spradlin and Rebecca Clara Spradlin.
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Hi Guys-
Im STILL working on securing a spot for the Grand Rapids, MI walk....there are a lot of walks going on in this area in May, and a lot of run around...grrrrr! Anyways, in my area, premits to hold the walk are going to cost between $200 to $500...is the foundation going to pay for the permit???
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Just spoke with Tempe Risk Management.
We need insurance for:
$1,000,000 general liability
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The liability insurance is a must. $2,000,000 agragate is important. If the other items are not in place, we can discuss it with the city. PF is all volunteer. That makes a difference.
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Do I just need to let you know that the city of Hope, Arkansas needs to be insured?
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In Arizona, we are looking at a very popular place called Tempe Town Lake. Tempe hosts many events like this. In its permit process, it states that insurance must be secured for any event. Events at Tempe Town Lake can have fireworks, water activities, carnival rides, etc. I have put a call in to see what they want for a simple 50-100 person walk with no special requirments. Waiting for a reply.
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Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Gene, Full Gene Analysis
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant cancer syndrome with a birth incidence of approximately 1 in 36,000 livebirths. It predisposes affected individuals to the development of mainly 5 different types of neoplasms: retinal angioma (>90% penetrance), cerebellar hemangioblastoma (CHB) (>80% penetrance), clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) (approximately 75% penetrance), spinal hemangioblastoma (SHB) (approximately 50% penetrance), and pheochromocytoma (PC) (approximately 30% penetrance). Angiomas in other organs, pancreatic cysts/adenomas/carcinomas, islet cell tumors, and endolymphatic sac tumors can also occur, but at much lower frequencies. VHL-related tumors start presenting at approximately 10 to 15 years of age (retinal angioma may present earlier), except for cRCC, which lags about a decade behind. For each tumor type, the incidence rates rise steadily, albeit at different slopes, throughout life.
VHL disease is caused by germline loss-of-function point mutations, deletions or insertions (approximately 80% of cases), or large germline deletions (approximately 20% of cases) of 1 copy of the VHL gene. Approximately 20% of cases are due to new mutations. VHL codes for a protein that is involved in ubiquitination and degradation of a variety of other proteins, most notably hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). HIF induces expression of genes that promote cell survival and angiogenesis under conditions of hypoxia. It is believed that diminished HIF degradation due to inactive VHL protein causes the tumors in VHL disease. Tumors form when the remaining intact copy of VHL is somatically inactivated in target tissues. Sporadic cRCC, unrelated to VHL disease, also shows somatic deletions, mutations, or aberrant methylation in 80% to 100% of cases.
Retinal angioma, CHB, and SHB cause morbidity, and some mortality, through pressure on adjacent structures and through retinal or subarachnoid hemorrhages. VHL-related cRCC and PC follow a similar clinical course as their sporadic counterparts, with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early detection of VHL-related tumors can reduce these adverse outcomes, and surveillance of affected individuals is therefore widely advocated. Genetic testing is the most accurate way to identify presymptomatic individuals, who can then be entered into a surveillance program.
Genetic testing might also predict the types of tumors that will occur, and can, therefore, be used to individualize surveillance programs. Certain combinations of the 5 major VHL-tumors cluster in VHL families. This observation has led to a phenotype-based classification of VHL syndrome into type 1 (cRCC with any combination of retinal angioma, CHB, or SHB), type 2A (PC with any combination of retinal angioma, CHB, or SHB), type 2B (both cRCC and PC, with any combination of retinal angioma, CHB, or SHB) and type 2C (isolated PC). Type 1 accounts for 60% to 80% of cases, while type 2C is exceedingly rare. However, phenotyping is only accurate in large kindreds. In smaller kindreds, genetic testing can assist in tailoring follow-up to patient needs. For example, missense mutations, particularly those affecting surface amino acids involved in maintaining the surface structural integrity of VHL protein, are strongly associated with PC. By contrast, nonsense or frameshift mutations that disrupt overall VHL protein structure and large deletions are associated with early clinical presentation and increased age-related risks for retinal angioma and cRCC.
Additionally, mutations distinct from those associated with VHL syndrome can cause hereditary erythrocytosis or polycythemia. Cases of VHL disease and erythrocytosis are largely mutually exclusive, and patients who present with erythrocytosis do not typically develop the neoplasms discussed above, although they are sometimes associated with varicose veins and vertebral hemangiomas. Erythrocytosis due to mutations in VHL, is caused by germ line homozygous or compound heterozygous point mutations, and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. These patients usually have a markedly high erythropoietin level in the presence of an elevated hematocrit. Erythrocytosis due to the germ line homozygous missense mutation at nucleotide 598C->T, p.R200W in the VHL gene has been found endemically in the Chuvash region of Russia, leading individuals with this mutation to be labeled as having Chuvash polycythemia (CP) although further studies have determined that this mutation can be found in other ethnic groups as well. These patients are at an increased risk to develop cerebrovascular and embolic complications. Heterozygous carriers are typically unaffected.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Diagnosis of suspected von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease
Screening presymptomatic members of VHL families
Diagnosis of hereditary erythrocytosis
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
All detected alterations will be evaluated according to American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommendations.(1) Variants will be classified based on known, predicted, or possible pathogenicity and reported with interpretive comments detailing their potential or known significance.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Rarely, unknown polymorphisms in primer- or probe-binding sites can result in false-negative test results (DNA sequencing) or either false-positive or false-negative results (multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification [MLPA]; deletion screening), due to selective allelic drop-out. False-negative or false-positive results can occur in MLPA deletion screening assays due to poor DNA quality.
In addition to disease-related probes, the MLPA technique utilizes probes localized to other chromosomal regions as internal controls. In certain circumstances, these control probes may detect other diseases or conditions for which this test was not specifically intended. Results of the control probes are not normally reported. However, in cases where clinically relevant information is identified, the ordering physician will be informed of the result and provided with recommendations for any appropriate follow-up testing.
If the specimen is from a tumor (frozen tissue), in particular a sporadic tumor (rather than a von Hippel-Lindau-related tumor), 1 of the alleles might be inactivated by promoter hypermethylation. Our assay does not detect hypermethylation.
This test does not reliably detect large gene deletions in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
An interpretive report will be provided.
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Richards CS, Bale S, Bellissimo DB, et al: ACMG recommendations for standards for interpretation and reporting of sequence variations: Revisions 2007. Genet Med 2008:10(4):294-300
2. Online Mendelian inheritance in Man-OMIM. Available from URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=193300
3. Universal Mutation database-UMD-VHL mutations database page. Available from URL: http://www.umd.be:2020/
4. Maher ER, Kaelin WG Jr: von Hippel-Lindau disease (Reviews in Molecular Medicine). Medicine 1997;76:381-391
5. Pack SD, Zbar B, Pak E, et al: Constitutional von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene deletions detected in VHL families by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Cancer Res 1999;59:5560-5564
6. Richards FM: Molecular pathology of von Hippel-Lindau disease and the VHL tumor suppressor gene. Expert Rev Mol Med 2001;3:1-27
7. Hes FJ, Hoppener JW, Lips CJ: Clinical review 155: pheochromocytoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003;88:969-974
8. Ong KR, Woodward ER, Killick P, et al: Genotype-phenotype correlations in von Hippel-Lindau disease. Hum Mutat 2007;28:143-149


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I think it really depends on the game. I've seen this go both way where the i7s significantly outperform the i5s, and vice versa. The other advantage of a faster CPU is that it will open up so that the graphics card is sure to be performing at full potential.
This site shows the i7 leading the i5 in most games by a tiny-to-small margin
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Ultimately I think the big win for the i5 is you get nearly identical performance of an i7 (for a game), but for a much greater value. I have never read, other than your comment, that hyper-threading is a performance hit. I would love if you could point to some post / site with more info backing that claim. Cheers.
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But even that is not the end of the regulatory hurdles that SpaceX must face before the first Falcon rocket roars into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico. The Longview News-Journal reports that a number of state and federal agencies must give their approval for various aspects of the space port before it becomes operational. For instance, the Texas Department of Transportation must give approval for the movement of utility lines. Environment Texas still opposes the space port since it is close to a wild life reserve and a state park. SpaceX has already agreed to enact measures to minimize the impact the space port would have on the environment, 'such as containing waste materials from the construction and enforcing a speed limit in the control center area.' Environment Texas is not impressed, however. Whether it is disposed to make trouble in the courts is an open question."
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Don't you remember? It was right there in the article.
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Māori culture is a living and dynamic reality in New Zealand/Aotearoa today and provides the nation with many of its unique qualities. Historically, interaction between Māori and non-Māori has shaped the economic, social and political development of this country.
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|My great-uncle Mikula Papp and his family in 1932. The portrait was taken in Chust, in what is now the Ukraine. The man sitting on the right may be another great-uncle, Ivan Papp, but I am not sure.
Mikula was the youngest of Ivan and Maria Tegze Papp's surviving children (the one who had no shoes). He and my grandfather Stefan corresponded for many years but after Stefan died in 1948 contact with the family was lost. When we went to Europe after the Berlin Wall fell we were reunited with my grandfather's family. My father and aunt met several first cousins, including Mikula's two surviving children.
His daughter, Maria, and two of her sons were still living in the Ukraine. They were an amazing family - welcoming us with open arms with only a day or two's notice. We asked there, as we asked everyone we visited, if they had pictures we could see. His daughter pulled a photo album from the shelf and showed us an entire album of empty pages. Only old fashioned small white corners outlined where the photographs had been.
Mikula had been arrested by Stalin's men one day after World War II and sent away. He was gone for many years, but did survive and return home. The family's photographs were destroyed (it wasn't clear to me whether the men who took Uncle Mikula destroyed them or the family themselves, out of fear) but forty years later they still had the album. Despite the scars Maria and her family lived and continue to live full and successful lives. One son is a surgeon, another is a dentist and the third, a Moscow-trained classical musician, emigrated to Mexico where he is a concert violinist.
Maria's younger brother, Laszlo, had settled in Budapest and joined us there for dinner. He looked very like his father. Laszlo would have been one of the two younger boys in this picture. He had worked as a bureaucrat in Hungary for many years and was retired when we came. For my father and aunt to meet these first cousins more than seventy years after their father left Europe was a gift we will treasure always.


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van Diepen S, Majumdar SR, Bakal JA, McAlister FA, Ezekowitz JA. Heart failure is a risk factor for orthopedic fracture: a population-based analysis of 16,294 patients.
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