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Tiny red marks or rashes appear often on your baby's skin, due to some infection or an allergy. These are nothing but boils. You may contemplate changing their bath soap, lotion or their talcum powder. If the boils on babies are more and bigger, you are worried thinking if something went wrong in their diet, or if it implies some underlying condition.
Before you make any changes in your baby's routine, read our article on boils. It will help you take a better decision.
What Is A Boil?
A boil, also known as a furuncle, is a tender and red lump on your baby's skin. It is not a serious condition, usually body's defences fight it out with the boils. Boils usually appear on the face, neck, shoulders, thighs, armpits and buttocks. However, at times, they spread to other parts of the body causing infection.
Causes Of Boils In Babies:
Boils occur when a sweat pore or hair root gets infected with bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus. Some health conditions can also increase your child's risk of developing boils. They may be:
- Diabetes
- Problems related to the immune system
- Poor hygiene
- Poor nutrition
- Exposure to chemicals that cause skin irritation
- Eczema
- Iron deficiency or anemia
[ Read : How To Prevent Anemia In Babies ]
Certain medications also weaken your baby's immunity. Therefore, it is good for you to understand the side effects of any medication you give your child.
Symptoms Of Boils On Babies:
In most cases, you may notice a hard and red lump on your baby's skin. This will usually be less than 4cm in size. As the days progress, the boil will get softer and larger. It can also start getting more painful for your baby, making them uncomfortable. You will also notice the formation of pus on the top of the boil.
Here are some symptoms that may be present in case the boil starts getting severe:
- The skin around the area of the boil will swell more and become redder.
- More boils may appear in and around the area where the first boil came up.
- Your baby may develop a temperature or run a high fever.
- Nearby lymph nodes will get swollen.
[ Read: Allergies In Babies ]
When You Should Seek Medical Help:
Boils do not need any medical intervention, but you should take your baby to a doctor when he or she has:
- A running fever
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Red streaks around the boil
- Severe pain
- Boil that does not drain pus
- Boils spreading
if your baby has diabetes or any problem with immune system
Diagnosis And Tests:
Your baby's doctor will have a physical examination and diagnose the problem. Infection might be spread to other parts of the body as well, a thorough check of the entire body will help address the issue.
[ Read : Heat Rash In Babies ]
Treatment For Boils On Babies:
Home Remedies:
Most of the boils will clear up on their own. You can also speed up the healing process by following the below home remedies and treatments.
1. Prepare A Compress:
Applying a warm compress will help the boil to open up and drain away pus. Wet a soft cloth with warm or hot water and place on the boil for a few minutes. It will help reduce the pain and drains the pus towards the surface. Repeat this a few more times in a day. Wash your hands before placing a compress.
2. Practice Good Hygiene:
Boils quickly spread because they are infectious. When you see a boil draining, you should clean the area with a piece of cotton dipped in an antiseptic solution. Wash the area, dry and cover it with plaster. It not only avoids spreading but also stops your little one from touching it. Rinse your hands using soap and dry them before and after you touch the boil.
Wash your baby with soap water or an antiseptic solution. You can even apply an antiseptic cream to the infected area. Use a separate towel for them and wash their clothing with hot water.
[ Read : Hygiene Tips For Babies ]
3. Keep A Check On The Boil:
If the boil seems to grow bigger and causes more pain or if you see other new boils popping up, you should immediately take your little one to a doctor.
4. Do Not Squeeze The Boil:
Do not try to squeeze the boil as it can affect the surrounding area, causing infection and more pain. Also, do not attempt to pop it using a needle. The infection can turn worse.
5. Honey Remedy:
Honey is the best natural antiseptic. Applying it on the ripened and drained boil will help prevent the spread of infection.
6. Porridge Remedy:
Porridge or poultice made of bread is another great remedy. Place the porridge in a cloth, soak in hot milk and keep over the boil. It helps treat inflammation and heals the boil quickly.
[ Read : Warts In Babies ]
Medical Treatment:
If the boil on baby get worse and no pus drains, you may take your little one to a doctor for a medical treatment including:
1. Antibiotics:
- Your child's doctor may suggest you to apply an anti-infective cream to the boil.
- If there are many painful and large boils, the doctor may recommend antibiotics.
- It is always important to finish the entire medical course as prescribed by the doctor even if the boils disappear.
- If antibiotics do not work, the next treatment will be an incision and draining the pus.
2. Incision & Drainage:
It is a surgical treatment that is performed by giving anesthesia.
- The surgeon will pierce the boil to take away the pus. Then he places a sterile dressing over the cut to absorb the excess discharge.
- He may give an antibiotic through an intravenous drip.
- Once the surgery is done, you may take your baby home.
- The dressing needs to be frequently changed and remember it has to be kept dry all the time.
Treatment For Boils On Baby's Head:
Babies develop boils on scalp due to various reasons. For treating those boils:
- Disinfect the area by rubbing alcohol, which is completely harmless to the baby's skin. Sometimes, this alone helps to get rid of boils that may have been caused by a simple infection.
- If there are multiple boils on the scalp, it can be because of heat and weather. In this case, apply coconut oil on them which has cooling and moisturizing properties. It effectively removes heat boils in babies.
[ Read : Benefits Of Coconut Oil For Babies ]
Are Your Baby's Boils Contagious?
Pus boils are contagious. They spread to other body parts or even to others. To avoid infection, you should:
- Regularly wash your hands when you play with your baby.
- Wash your baby's washcloths, towels and bed linen with hot water.
- Change the dressing frequently and throw it off to avoid spreading.
- When the boil bursts, make sure that the pus will not touch any other body parts.
What If My Baby Keeps Getting Boils (Recurrent Boils)?
Reasons For Recurrent Boils:
Your baby may be affected with boils regularly, but this does not mean there is something wrong with his immune system. There is nothing to worry unless there is a recurring pattern with your baby's other infections. Various bacteria and germs live on the surface of our skin and in our intestines. This is known as colonization.
If your baby is affected with recurrent boils, it may mean that your baby is colonized with Staphylococcus aureus. These bacteria are passed very quickly from person to person. It is very common that your baby keeps picking up the infection from someone in the house or the proximity.
Prevention Or Reduction Of Boils On Your Baby:
Once you notice the appearance of boils on baby's skin, try doing the following to help ease them:
- Check the boil daily to see if there are any signs of infection.
- Verify the area for the appearance of any new boils.
- Make sure you clean the boil properly every day.
- Soak a clean cloth or towel in warm water and place it on the boil. Do this for about ten minutes or as long as your baby allows. Make sure you do not apply any pressure.
- If your child's boil has burst and you notice pus or any other fluid or even blood, do not panic. Take a sterilized cotton pad and soak it in warm water. Add a few drops of antiseptic liquid to the water. Now apply this to your baby's boil and clean the area gently.
- Ask everyone else in the family to check whether they have boils.
- Wash the towels and your hands regularly before and after you hold your baby.
[ Read : Tips To Take Care Of Your Baby's Skin ]
How Long Will A Boil Last?
In case you are not treating your baby's boil, their body will automatically start fighting the infection. Within a week of its appearance, the boil will start turning soft and get filled with pus. You should check if the boil is fading within eight to ten days of its appearance.
A boil can be quite painful, but it will soon go away on its own. In case, the boil persists for more than ten to twelve days or is always coming back, schedule an appointment with your baby's doctor.
Complications On Your Baby From Boils:
Pus boils will not lead to any complications. But sometimes scarring occurs if the boil is popped. If the boil enlarges, it can turn into cellulite. It is when the infection passes into the deeper layers of the skin and can be treated using antibiotics.
Has your baby experienced boils anytime? Do you have any tips you would like to share with the fellow readers? Do tell other moms all about treating a boil on a baby in the comments section below.
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The launch session of the Innovation Convention exhorted us to take young people seriously - where will the innovation come from if not from them? So working on that basis, young people also need to learn to tell everyone about their ideas effectively, from the general public, to policy makers to their peers.
Hence a master class in science communication yesterday afternoon, with two masters in the form of Claudie Haignere, a doctor, politician, former astronaut and current President of Universcience in Paris, and Leo Enright, Chairman of Discover Science and Engineering, Ireland. The pupils were there to bring their problems and questions to the rest of the panel. Enright started with an apology for not being Brian Cox, well known commentator on astrophysics and ambassador for CERN, who had originally been part of the programme. Assessing the eminent Prof Cox's appeal to the media in rather tongue in cheek fashion, Enright made the point that the key was probably Cox's genuine enthusiasm for his subject and his credibility as a scientist. "Good science and good communication may not always go together in your field," he said, "but if you find the right communicator, it pays off to be sincere, be yourself and get past your nerves."
As a journalist, he also noted what he called the collapse in the business model for journalism. Staff science correspondents are increasingly rare in the US, for example, where the Texan Houston Chronicle apparently no longer has a dedicated space reporter. Houston we indeed have a problem. An interesting point given the current crisis in the British press surrounding the Leveson inquiry – fewer stories based on phone hacking might leave more space for science journalism perhaps?
Pupil Jeremy Wilks of EuroNews reported that his hardest challenge is to make the science look and sound good for a TV audience. Credibility is key, he's not looking for soundbites, he needs his featured scientists to talk naturally and honestly about their research. Not to forget also giving air to what went wrong along the way and the problems they successfully solved. Scientists shouldn't pretend science has all the answers - they need to get across that they, and science, are still learning. Good advice!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Joab cleverly arranged for Absalom to return
1 Joab realized that the king yearned [IDM] to see Absalom. 2 So Joab sent someone to Tekoa town to bring back a woman who was very clever. When she arrived, Joab said to her, "Pretend that you are grieving because someone has died. Put on clothes that show that you are mourning. Do not put any lotion/ointment on your body. Act as if you are a woman who has been mourning for a long time. 3 And go to the king, and tell him what I tell you to say." Then Joab told her what to say [MTY] to the king.
4 So the woman from Tekoa went to the king. She prostrated herself in front of him and then bowed down to him, and said, "Your Majesty, help me!"
5 The king replied, "What is your problem?" She replied, "Please, sir, I am a widow. My husband died some time ago. 6 I had two sons. But one day they quarreled with each other out in the fields. There was no one to separate them, and one of them struck the other one and killed him. 7 Now, all my family oppose me. They are insisting that I allow them to kill my son who is still alive [MTY], in order that they may get revenge for his killing his brother. But if they do that, I will not have any son to inherit my husband's possessions. That would be like [MET] extinguishing the last coals of a fire, and my husband would not have a son to preserve our family's name. [DOU]"
8 Then the king said to the woman, "Go back home; I will take care of this matter for you."
9 The woman from Tekoa replied to the king, "Your Majesty, if you are criticized for helping me, my family and I will accept the blame. You and the royal family will ◄be innocent/not have done what is wrong►."
10 The king said to her, "If anyone says anything to threaten you/cause you trouble you, bring that person to me, and I will make sure that he will never cause you trouble again."
11 Then the woman said, "Your Majesty, please pray that Yahweh your God will not allow my relative, who wants to get revenge on my son for killing [MTY] his brother, to be able to do that."
David replied, "As surely as Yahweh lives, your son will not be harmed at all. [IDM]" 12 Then the woman said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to say one more thing to you." He replied, "Speak!"
13 The woman said, "Why have you done this bad thing to God's people? You have not allowed your son Absalom to return home. By saying what you have just said, you have certainly declared [RHQ] that what you have done is wrong. 14 We all die; we are like [SIM] water that cannot be picked up after it is spilled on the ground. But God does not just cause us to die; he creates ways to bring us back when we become separated from him.
15 Now, Your Majesty, I have come to you because others have threatened me. So I said to myself, 'I will go and talk to the king, and perhaps he will do what I request him to do. 16 Perhaps he will listen to me, and save me from the man who is trying to kill my son. If my son is killed, it would result in us disappearing from the land that God gave to us.'
17 And I thought, 'What the king says will comfort/encourage me, because the king is like [SIM] an angel of God. He knows what is good and what is evil.' I pray/desire that Yahweh our God will ◄be with/direct► you."
18 Then the king said to the woman, "I will now ask you a question. Answer it, and tell me the truth. [LIT]" The woman replied, "Your majesty, ask your question."
19 The king said, "Was Joab the one who told you to do this?" She replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, as surely as you live, I cannot avoid telling you what is true. Yes, indeed, it was Joab who told me to come here, and who told me what to say. 20 He did it in order to cause you to think differently about this matter. Your Majesty, you are as wise as God's angels, and it seems that you know everything that happens on the earth, so you know why Joab sent me here."
21 Then the king summoned Joab and said to him, "Listen! I have decided to do what you want. So go and get that young man Absalom and bring him back to Jerusalem."
22 Joab prostrated himself on the ground, and then he bowed down before the king, and asked God to bless him. Then Joab said, "Your Majesty, today I know that you are pleased with me, because you have agreed to do what I requested."
23 Then Joab got up and went to Geshur, and got Absalom and brought him back to Jerusalem. 24 But the king said/commanded that Absalom would not be permitted to live in the palace. He said, "I do not want him to come to see me." So Absalom lived in his own house, and did not go to talk to the king.
25 Absalom was very handsome. He looked perfect, from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head. In all of Israel there was no one whom people admired more than Absalom. 26 His hair was very thick, and he cut it only once each year, when it became too heavy for him. Using the standard weights, he would weigh the hair that he cut off, and it always weighed about five pounds. 27 Absalom had three sons and one daughter named Tamar. She was a very beautiful woman.
28 After Absalom returned to Jerusalem, he lived there two years, and during that time he never was allowed to see the king. 29 So he sent a messenger to Joab to ask him to come and talk to him, but Joab refused to come. So Absalom sent a message to him a second time, but he still would not come.
30 Then Absalom said to his servants, "You know that Joab's field is next to mine, and that he has barley growing there. Go and light a fire there to burn his barley." So Absalom's servants went there and lit a fire, and all his barley burned.
31 Joab knew who had done it, so he went to Absalom's house and said to him, "Why have your servants burned the barley in my field?" 32 Absalom replied, "Because you did not come to me when I sent messages to you requesting that you come. I wanted to request that you go to the king to say to him, 'Absalom ◄wants to know what good it did/says that is was useless► [RHQ] for him [RHQ] to leave Geshur and come here. He thinks that it would have been better for him to have stayed there. He wants you to allow him to talk to you. And if you think that he has done something that is wrong, you can command that he be executed.' " 33 So Joab went to the king, and told him what Absalom had said. Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king and knelt down in front of him with his face touching the ground. Then the king kissed Absalom to show that he was pleased to see him.
Note: The Old Testament in this translation is still being worked on, and is in draft form. Updates will be posted at eBible.org/t4t/.


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Who loves this time of year? I know I do! Nothing beats the smell of fall, the change of colors on the trees, the cooler days. This time of year I try to be especially crafty with all the different holidays just around the bend.
Oh! Before I forget, let be do a quick introduction before I get into my 31 days of Halloween tutorial. I'm Rebekah and blog over at Rebekahsews.com and post over on Facebook too! Now if you follow me you know I love to sew. But you may have also seen that sewing isn't my only passion! Can you guess what the other one is?? Yes photography!!! So I decided that since my family doesn't really celebrate Halloween (although I do like to participate in the blogging world) I would do a little something different and give a little tutorial on how to make a ghost photos for scary Halloween images! Yes you read it right! Just look below:
What is this exactly you ask? Well it is two images (or more) that are almost the same laid on top of one another. The bottom layer is just the background. The top layer is the subject in the background. You then change the opacity on the top layer making it translucent which in turn makes it look like a ghost. Make sense? Don't worry, it will soon.
To start making scary Halloween images, you don't have a fancy camera or fancy editing software don't worry. You can still have fun too! You need just a couple basic things. First your camera, a tripod (highly recommended), and of course your subject! You will then need to take a photo of your subject and then another photo of just your background. Don't move your camera when doing this though! This is why I highly recommend a tripod, because if you take photos of your subject and then without or vice versa you are bound to move the camera a tad and change the perspective. If that happens the photos won't line up perfectly when you layer them. If you don't have a tripod that is ok too. Try your best not to move the camera. A little later you may need to erase around your subject to get the look we are going for. Here are my two photos:
My Subject:
So let's start the tutorial. If you don't have editing software you can download Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 off the internet and get a free 30 day trial. I am not affiliated with this software at all, it is simply what I am used to (I actually use the full Photoshop version however the elements is great to start off with and a little less confusing).
1. Look at your images in Organizer. Pick out the one with the subject and just the background that you like best. (Think about which would be a scary Halloween image when it is done.) Select both by holding down your control button on your keyboard and right clicking both photos. Then click on editor. This will now open them in Photoshop Elements 13.
2. After they open click over to Expert mode. You will need all the tools in this area to create the ghost image.
3. The first photo we are going to work on is the photo with your subject in it. We are now going to click on our rectangle marquee tool.
4. Use that tool by clicking on the photo and drawing a box around your subject that will be a ghost. If you used a tripod and your photos are exact you could select the entire photo.
5. Now click on the Move tool.
6. Using the move tool on the area you put a rectangle or square around earlier press your right click button and hold it down. Now drag that selection to your background photo by dragging it up to the box with the filename of the photo in it. This will make the background photo pop open.
7. Once your selection or subject is on the background photo, you can move it into place with the move tool or using the arrow keys on your keyboard. The arrow keys will help you move by little increments in order to get it lined up just right!
8. At this point you will want to make sure you have the layer window open. If it isn't open simply click on Window at the top and then click on Layers. You will then see a box pop up to the right showing your layers! Cool right?
9. Now comes the fun part. Select the layer with your subject in it in the layer window. Right above that layer you should see a line that says opacity. Currently it will say 100%. Click on that little arrow and you will now see a slide bar pop up. Click on the ball and slide it down. You will now see your subject's opacity change. This is what gives it the ghost look! Feel free to play around with it and make it as transparent as you want! Also you can now crop in closer to your subject if you'd like too as I did!
Easy right?! Just a couple tips:
-If you edit your image prior to making it a ghost image, make sure you edit both the subject photo and background photo the same!
-If you don't have a tripod and things don't perfectly line up when you change the opacity then you can erase around your subject on the subject layer to get rid of any areas that don't align. Most of the time you will need to erase everything except the subject.
-If you want to add any contrast or continue editing your photo, flatten image first and then edit. You will find the option to "flatten image" under the layers heading at the top.
-HAVE FUN!! I know I did with my ghost images!!
Thanks for having me! Enjoy whatever holidays you celebrate and continue to be creative. I wonder...will there be lots of ghost sightings soon...
Don't forget to hang up all those scary Halloween images and enjoy!
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Rheinach 7 March 2011 - BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (Germany) and Evolva Holding SA, Reinach (Switzerland) today announced that they have signed an agreement for joint research on the design of novel and optimised biosynthesis routes for selected natural products with crop protection potential.
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Evolva (SIX: EVE) is an international, innovative synthetic biology company with a world-class research platform. Evolva strives to improve people's lives by applying its technology and other resources to the discovery and development of new products and processes that benefit the health, well-being and financial economy of patients, consumers and partner companies around the world. Evolva uses biosynthetic and evolutionary technologies to artificially create and optimise small molecule compounds and their production routes. Our approach differs from that of the mainstream in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. We have discovery partnerships ongoing both in pharma and industrial areas. In addition we have a pipeline of promising compounds aimed at infectious and cardio-renal indications.
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Personal Liberty Includes Personal Responsibility
Two tendencies in Man demonstrate in the realm of mind the same action and reaction, the same balance, that we find in the mechanical forces. And since Thought is Power we must find every so-called natural, mechanical and chemical law, to be merely laws of Mind. We shall see them exemplified in the thoughts and actions of mankind, as we have heretofore found them in the cruder vibrations, termed matter.
Since we deal with Thought as a form of Eternal Energy we look for its Laws and its directive power in Man only, where it is manifest. We study the laws of mechanics in machines; of chemistry in chemicals; of gravity in the forms about us. In like manner we are to study the laws of Thought in ourselves. When I say "ourselves," I mean that I must study myself, and you must study yourself. The only way to arrive at truth is to study in the present tense, indicative mode, the personal pronoun "I." The teacher of "NOW" PHILOSOPHY teaches this way. He reasons from these Affirmations: I AM THOUGHT. I STUDY THOUGHT WHEN I STUDY MYSELF. I KNOW ONLY MYSELF. IN STUDYING MYSELF I AM STUDYING ALL THAT IS. WHEN I KNOW MYSELF I KNOW ALL THAT IS.
Only those who understand and live in this thought have arrived at Self-Control. Those who live after this Philosophy have conquered Fate.
The boasted personal liberty of which we hear so much, is at present largely a myth, a dream. When it comes, it comes through a study of Eternal Energy. As long as one studies external forces only, he finds them power, and thinking he must, he submits to them. But deeper study teaches that there is a force in Man, that can, through direction, control external forces. Circumstances control him who does not know how to control them.
Here we have the thought, and the word the world is seeking CHOICE. Can we choose in any degree? Certainly. Each person realizes and exercises very early in life the power of choice. Is it limited? By what? If limited, I am not free and personal liberty is a myth; I am like plant and bird subject to Law and am in the hands of a Fate inexorable and merciless. If choice is not limited, then I am free to the extent that I exercise that choice. Nay, if choice is limitless, can I avoid its exercise?
One or the other of these positions each one must take. The masses do claim limitations. They prate of independence, personal liberty and individuality, but they do this from the narrow thought of freedom from governmental, priestly or industrial and personal interference. They carry not the thought into the real realm of Cause; into the real world of Power. They stop in the world of effects as manifest in civil and social laws; business and economic methods. This is no more liberty, than the condition of the freed Russian serf is liberty. These serfs are still clamoring for liberty.
My writings under name of "Soul Culture" and "Now Philosophy," are written from the affirmation that each individual is absolutely free to choose, and is because of this freedom, absolutely responsible for his life. No circumstance or person, or power, is responsible for his health, happiness or success, but himself. I know this is denied consciously constantly by the great majority, and this is the main reason why I proclaim it. That it is also denied unconsciously in practice, denied by many who hold to it in theory, I also know. Few even of New Thought teachers have reached the point of sticking to the freedom they affirm.
This cry for liberty, this boast of independence, is the cry of the Unfolding Soul for larger expression. The excuse, reason, or apology for not manifesting our desire is Nature's ratchet, which holds us from slipping back when we have in liberty gained a notch. But are we to stop where we are? Restlessness and pain of circumstances soon send us forward a notch because we CHOOSE to go on, rather than to suffer under limitations. What Man wills not to endure, he cures. Choosing, he moves in the line of least resistance and ever toward liberty. Liberty, the only possible liberty, is opportunity to express that which he chooses to express. Through such expression he unfolds into consciousness of himself; into consciousness of his power to be and to do.
Man excuses his failures in any line by laying it to some circumstance, person, law, lack, or place. Some excuse is found, and rarely is the true one given. This fact I would deeply impress on the mind of my reader, Never as long as a person gives an excuse for not doing will he ever find the power to do. An excuse is the recognition of a Power somewhere manifesting in circumstances, which is more powerful than the person, and to which he must submit. To say, "I could not because circumstances would not admit," or "Because I could not conquer circumstances," is to say, "I am slave. I am not powerful enough to do as I choose." But the fact is one always does as he chooses to do. He chose to submit. Choice he cannot avoid. He chose to be a slave because he thinks there is a power too strong to conquer. It is easier to submit than to contend. The true reason one should give himself for any lack of expression is "I realized that I had not developed my consciousness of power so as to overcome at this time, and simply retired to learn more of myself as the overcoming power!" No one thought is more needed today than this of a personal realization of the connection between the individual and the Universal, which leads one to hold self responsible for conduct.
The realization that "each person is an inlet to the Divine mind and to the whole of that mind" is the key to Power. The only reason for unhappiness and the failure it produces, is that one does not choose to exercise this power, which he is by Divine right. "I can't!" is the prison of millions. Self-hypnotized through the Auto-Suggestion of a belief in Power outside themselves; by the fear of and submission to circumstances.
There is but One Power and each person is IT. This desire to excuse oneself for submission to an external power that is greater than interior power, leads to the creation of the gods and devils in all theologies; leads to philosophies that weaken and encourage the non-doing of millions; giving them excuses to languish in conditions they could throw off, would they affirm Power, and thus enjoy the blessing of liberty.
But a caution here. Your business is NOT to direct or save your neighbor; is not to go out and reform the world; is not revolution. You are to recognize within yourself the power to direct your own life; to make through your thought a personal evolution; that others seeing what you do for yourself, may learn also to do for themselves.
Personal gods and personal devils have disappeared from the thought of liberal teachers and thinkers, but the Principle which created them still remains, in the desire and tendency to lay blame for conditions and conduct on some external cause. This tendency finds expression even among some of our foremost New Thought teachers. Humanity has not yet reached the plane of Self-Reliance. No teaching is more needed today than self-assertion. Beyond all other books, in the great mass of New Thought literature, is Emerson's essay on "Self-Reliance," in its power to awaken the individual to a consciousness of personal power and of personal responsibility. "Never strike sail to a fear!" is one of his strong and needed admonitions. Out of our fears all limitations come. Fear shapes all the devils, and creates all the evils.
The disappearance of devils has given us much that is worse, because it is more subtle, and is the creation of a more developed intellect.
Devils have become "evil spirits," millions of individuals where once one only was prowling about, and obsession is an excuse for lack of personal expression, lack of self-control. Evil spirits however were too crude for many so we have this modified into "malignant magnetism." This is the excuse among a large class of people who repeat "All is good! There is no evil!" Such have not reached the place where they accept personal responsibility; must have some scape-goat for their illness and failures. We have another still more subtle excuse and one that because of the fact of telepathy is harder to remove. That is "Evil thoughts!" So convenient is it, to excuse any ill doing by saying, "Somebody sent me an evil thought! A friend saw a lady slip on the ice one morning. Several days later he met her and asked, "Did it hurt you when you slipped the other morning?" He was startled by the reply, "O, I knew some one sent me an evil thought." Another large class of believers have a standing excuse when they suffer any ill condition in this expression: "I am working out my Karma!" A thought far more repulsive to a freeman and thinker, than the old excuse, "The devil made me do it!" Very many of our New Thought books otherwise very fine, are so vitiated with this negative and self-destructive thought, that I cannot recommend them. What, I a child of the Divine limited to re-birth after rebirth and suffering in one incarnation for what I did long ages ago? Too puerile, and would make one laugh if the consequences did not make one weep. Self-respect, self-reliance and self-conquest are impossible under such a thought. No wonder India has submitted to English tyranny under this dominion. The American people would never rise from control of trusts and monopolies did they believe in Karma; a theory of a primitive and early people who carried with it also the thought of transmigration of souls, which seems too repugnant to a twentieth century theosophist to teach. The sense of self-responsibility, the present most needed development, is hindered by all these theories, which are used as excuses for lack of self-control.
Out of this desire, belief and fear arises the cry against hypnotism. Strange is the fact, that otherwise fine teachers along New Thought lines, both in journals and books, are warning their readers against hypnotism. They repeat statements like these, "To yield your will to another is dangerous!" "To give up one's self to the control of another is an evil!" Such statements tend to keep alive this old thought of excuse and to increase the old fears and weakness. Such statements are not Truth. They are born in the old thought. No one who has ever experimented with Suggestion, no one who feels it his sacred duty to his fellows to teach only what he knows by personal experience, will ever repeat the folly of teaching "the possibility of yielding the control of one's life or one's thought to another;" will ever talk of "putting a person under control of another's will." Only the will of the individual can influence his life. I can obey my will. Another's will can become mine only by my choice. I can make it mine, or I can refuse. (See p. 24.) I have the same power of choice in regard to every person that the miss has to accept or decline a proposal of marriage. Nowadays she often claims she was hypnotized.
She acted, as every person always does, under her own choice. She decided, and all the influence any person can possibly have over another and no more, the young man ad over her, and that is, he presented inducements, and she equally influenced him.
Recently a young doctor used to bet on a horse race the money entrusted to him by a friend, and lost; he then claimed he was influenced to do so by two sharpers. The excuse is worse than the loss of money, because it is an admission of lack of manhood; tells us that he has not developed power of self-control. Loss of money, or friends, or anything is not equal to this cowardice.
The operator has no power to will his subjects. Hypnotism is no excuse for any action. In Kansas I had a fine subject, and one evening when he was taking from a glass of water anything I suggested, I said, "There is beer in the glass;" he would not touch it. When I insisted he woke with a start as though he had been hit. I tried to make some good subjects pick some pockets. Three refused, saying, "I won't steal;" I could not make them. The fourth took the watch from the man's pocket, and when fully awake I asked him what he did and he replied: "I took the watch!" Why? "Because you told me to, and I knew it was only a trick!" He was under control of the thought, but not unconscious. Dr. Albert Moll of Berlin, one of the best of European authorities, when in this country said in an interview published in the Kansas City, Mo., Star: "It is doubtful if any serious crime was ever done while under this influence. The weight of authority is against it!" Later students deny its possibility.
Certainly were it one thousandth part as baneful as even some New Thought teachers think, were there a shadow of fact that would warrant the charge of evil, it would be easy to prove its harmfulness. There are those who say it would be an evil were one to yield himself to the will of another. True! But can one so yield? Does one ever so yield?
Have you any cases of such yielding? Not one. In his work upon "Suggestive Therapeutics," Dr. Schrenck-Notzing of Germany, gives the results of his investigations among the hospitals of Europe, and though he reports the results of many thousand experiments, he has never found a single case of the harmfulness of Suggestion, even when carried to hypnosis (which is merely sleep under Suggestion) even when it is many times practiced upon the same individual. It will be noticed that among the authorities he quotes as thinking "it possible" that it may be used for harm, he gives not one instance where it has so been used. All positive evidence is to its safety. Any evil effects are hypothetical; merely "may be"; are but opinions, and not demonstrations.
That Suggestion, even to complete hypnosis, ever wrought harm to a single person, is yet to be proved. There has never yet been such a case reported. The conscious use of this power, cannot work evil. On the contrary every person should learn voluntarily and consciously to receive Suggestions, as this is the only road to Self-Control. Till one can do this, he, or she, is liable to receive Suggestions from the outside and accept them as his own, unconscious of their origin. New Thought teachers who are so afraid of Hypnotism, are themselves working under the one phase of Suggestion which is dangerous to happiness, i. e., Self-Suggestion of fear and ignorance, which imposes limitations upon the Human Soul and is the one danger to avoid. Suggestion is an ever present factor in life. Hypnosis is but one of millions of phenomena resulting from Suggestion; it is but sleep under the influence of the Suggestion of sleep. There is but one guard against any evil effects through Suggestions whether one is sleeping or waking, and that guard is CONSCIENCE. What is right, is the decision of the reasoning faculties from experience of training.
Conscience says, "DO RIGHT!" Only the individual himself can violate conscience and because he wills to do so.
Who is false to conscience is never safe anywhere. Who is true to conscience, who always does what he considers right, can never be led astray. There is absolutely no possibility of any person doing wrong save under his, or her, own Auto-Suggestion. Note this well No one ever does anything save under his own Auto-Suggestion and he can receive no Suggestion to convert into an Auto-Suggestion, which is antagonistic to Conscience, for Conscience is not amenable either to reason or will. It is "The Voice of God in the Soul." We can will ourselves to accept for a time a thought that is not reasonable at the request of another, but can never accept a thought that is repellent to conscience. Every New Thought teacher and healer should know this. Experience should teach them, that till Conscience assents to their instruction, there is no action, no recovery.
That it is impossible to cause a person, even in the deepest hypnosis, to violate his conscience, or to do that against which he has set his will, is demonstrated in the experience of every practical hypnotist.
All experts tell us this. Teachers who fear the influence of Hypnotism, are as far off their base as are the clergy who prate of the evils of the theater, having never seen one. Not knowing the real evils, imaginary ones are preached against. Men of straw are built up and pulled down by them. They see evils of hypnotism where there are none, and the real dangers of the involuntary, unconscious hypnotism of authority, personal influence, money, dress, fashion, public opinion and fear are ignored.
I have so many times come up against the will, or the moral standard of a subject, that without hesitation, I declare that under no circumstance can one person so influence another that he will do anything he thinks is wrong, or against which he has willed.
Unity of wills is an absolute necessity to the success of the Suggestionist. He is compelled to move in the line of the moral standard of his subject. The evils of false education are laid at the door of Circumstances. Parents and teachers neglect to fix moral Principles in a child; he goes out into the world without Principle. He has had a lot of "dont's," and a lot of arbitrary rules, but no fixed Principle of Right. He is taught in many cases what to do, but is not taught Self-Control, which alone is temperance, and when he becomes drunk it is laid to the saloon keeper. It is as easy to do right as it is to do wrong to one who has been taught to hold himself to blame; who has been taught that he HAS POWER to say, "NO!"
False are all the reports in the press of hypnotized persons coming to evil. Hypnotism cannot become the scapegoat for the weak. The criminal cannot excuse himself by claiming he was hypnotized. These are subterfuges and when accepted destroy character. What is done is in line with one's moral development, or it would never have been done. He wished to.
This doctrine is not relished by society. But it is Truth. The philosophy I teach allows no person to shirk the responsibility of Character; of controlling by choice his own life. "Thou art the man!" thunders "Soul Culture!" You can! You will whatever you do! You ARE POWER to will, and to do, whatever you desire to will and to do. From a long experience I assert that a knowledge of Suggestion and its power is the ONE knowledge that will bring redemption from the tyranny of so-called evil. Freedom comes alone when one FEELS, that he or she, is superior to any and all conditions of life.
I have dealt with these questions on pp 31, 32, of this book. Because of the widespread report in the daily press of the evils of hypnotism, I use this space in this new edition to emphasize what I have already said. I will give a few more authorities and incidents.
Prof. A. E. Carpenter told me that one of his best subjects would not remove his coat one evening. He made repeated trials and failed. After the entertainment was over, he asked the young man why he would not remove his coat.
The reply was, "I had no time to change my shirt before I came to the hall. My over-shirt was torn and I decided that I would not take my coat off and show the red flannel shirt through the tears!" Professor Carpenter has probably as extensive experience as any living person; he says in his "Plain Instructions,"—"The operator should remember that it is the subject's condition that determines the success of the experiment, and not any peculiar magnetic or cult power that he, the operator, possesses. That is, if the sitter is in a subjective condition he will respond to the suggestion, and further, that the sitter goes into this condition himself, the operator does not put him into it." Dr. Schrenck-Notzing in speaking of the results of his investigations among the practitioners of Europe, gives his opinion in the following extracts:
"The evidence mentioned is augmented by the wide experience of Forel, Moll and numerous other experimenters, all of which leads to the conclusion that with proper individualization of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes it is devoid of any disadvantage."
He gives this conclusion as the result of his investigations in the "Introduction" to his work on "Suggestive Therapeutics," quoting these authorities:
"Ringer says, after reviewing 210 cases in his practice, that he has never seen hypnosis have an injurious effect. "Van Renterghem and Von Eeden, whose clinic I visited, likewise testify to the innocuousness of therapeutic hypnosis, and were able to add nearly 1,000 cases to the 414 cases cited.
"Wetterstrand, according to his work, has subjected 3,200 persons to hypnotic procedure, and induced hypnosis 60,000 times without observing any injurious results. "Von Corval gives from his own, as well as from the experience of others in general, his conclusion that hypnosis, correctly employed, is unaccompanied by any danger.
"Minde thinks all dangers may be avoided by proper care. "Craft-Ebing says: Treatment by hypnotic suggestion is innocuous when it is scientifically employed.'
"Preyer says:'It can have no injurious effect when skillfully used.'
"Liebeault of Nancy, who during thirty years has hypnotized 10,000 persons, some of them more than 100 times, says with proper precautions he has never observed untoward effects follow hypnotism.
"Professor Bernheim, from his observations on several thousand patients, has lately expressed himself as follows:
'Suggestion often cures; when it does not cure it ameliorates; and if it does not benefit it is still harmless.' "Grossman found the legend of its dangers unconfirmed. "Professor Hirt of Breslau, made in eight months, experiments for therapeutic purposes on 598 persons. More than 4,000 sittings have proven to him that hypnosis is never accompanied by harmful effects, even when frequently induced in the same individual."
Von Notzing himself in his "Introduction" says: "Observations of hypnotism on more than 300 persons, of whom many were hypnotized more than 100 times and some 200 or 300 times, leads me to believe in the harmlessness of therapeutic suggestion."
And in the body of his book, he says:
"If other means are not successful, then failure to use suggestive therapeutics out of prejudice and ignorance must be regarded as inexcusable negligence on the part of the physician toward his patients."
At the International Medical Congress held at Moscow, Russia, in August, 1897, Prof. Lombroso, of Turin, read a paper that created great enthusiasm. In it he declared that:
"We ought to study carefully all physical states, including hypnosis, for discoveries which this may lead to are incalculable in their importance, and the benefits to the human race beyond our power to foresee or imagine."
I condense some statements of Bernheim, one of Europe's leading scientists, along psychical lines: He says he has seen Hypnotic Suggestion used in the same case for several years, seances and treatments being given each successive day and no harm resulting; on the contrary, he found that each and every case had greatly improved during that long and constant subjection to Hypnotism. Hypnotic Suggestion has been very successfully used for years in the alms houses, orphan asylums and penal institutions of France in correction of diseases and habits in adults and the vices and habits of children. There is the best evidence and greatest need in the world for the use of Hypnotism and suggestion in the capacity of curative, moral and educational agents.
Prof. T. J. Hudsen, author of "The Law of Psychic Phenomena" in a magazine article said:
"That hypnotism and its chief hand-maiden, suggestion, have been proved to be an unalloyed blessing to millions of the human race cannot be successfully controverted. No intelligent observer of the subject who has made an honest and unprejudiced investigation of it will deny its value as a therapeutic agent or gainsay the fact that it has been the means of restoring to health untold numbers of otherwise incurable sufferers from physical and mental maladies. Its value as an anesthetic in surgery has been demonstrated by the profession in many notable instances, and it is thought that when its laws are better understood it will be found to be an agent of universal application for the inhibition of pain in surgical operations. Its value as a means for the eradication of habits of drunkenness, as well as of many other habits equally destructive to health and reason, no one who has given the subject the slightest attention will seriously question. Its availability as an auxiliary to the usual process of education is rapidly becoming known throughout the world. And so is its value as a means of training children to correct habits of mind and body, and above all of eradicating from the human mind the tendency to immorality and crime."
It would be easy to extend this list of authorities many pages, but to one who has gripped its Principle of Suggestion as laid down in this book, there is little need, and I will close with some paragraphs from expert authority: the article in the Encyclopedia Americana, written by Hamilton Osgood, M. D. See how closely his thought, printed in 1905, tallies with that of this book, printed two years before:
"The word hypnotism is generally and largely misunderstood and misused. For example, if a person seems to be wholly influenced by another, it is commonly said that he has been hypnotized. This is a great error. The word hypnotism means putting a person to sleep and means nothing else. If an individual seems to be subjected to another in the waking state it should be said that he is unduly influenced. He is not hypnotized. That would mean that he was asleep. The means by which hypnotism is used is "suggestion." A person may be influenced by suggestion in the waking state, for suggestion is a great force in daily life. As connected with hypnotism, however, suggestion is the expression of an idea or combination of ideas which becomes impressed upon the mind of the somnolent subject to whom it is addressed. Conscious or unconscious results are sure to follow. This explanation sums up the meaning, use, and results of suggestion as applied to hypnotism and the hypnotic state. If a subject be awake he can, according to the strength of his will and desire, control to a greater or lesser degree the effect of a suggestion which he has received.
"In the popular mind exists the belief that this form of treatment is attended by danger, that the patient once hypnotized is thereafter under control of the operator, even at a distance, that the will is weakened, etc. This is all a mistake. No person can be hypnotized unless he is willing. No person can be hypnotized at a distance, unless by telephone, or if he be a good and willing subject, by letter; and the patient must first have been hypnotized by the operator at some previous time. Otherwise the operator cannot influence him at a distance in the slightest degree.
The will is not only not weakened, but there is no other existing treatment which can so strengthen the will as can hypnotic suggestion.
"It is an absolutely safe and beneficent form of aid. It may not always bring relief, but never in the hands of a competent operator has it done harm. The patient will always choose the operator as he would choose a surgeon. The object of all reliable operators in the use of hypnotic suggestion is the relief of the patient, and to the operator the treatment is a sacred thing.
"The hypnotic sleep is a natural sleep. Those who claim that it is not natural are not intelligent in the matter, and their opinions are based upon pure and uninformed theory. "As has been shown by scores of thousands of cases, treated by brilliant and educated physicians, the treatment is absolutely innocuous. It either relieves or produces a neutral effect, and is useful in a multitude of ailments which baffle ordinary means of relief."
This testimony of Dr. Osgood should be sufficient to settle the matter, and to more than balance, in an unprejudiced mind, all possible negative testimony. But I will add the testimony of the greatest medical authority in the United States, Dr. William Osier, formerly of the John Hopkins Medical School and now of Oxford, England. In the article on "Medicine" in the "Encyclopedia Americana," after enumerating ameliorating influences upon health, he says: "To these might be added a fourth, which in some sense is the most natural of all; for it has been practiced in ages more remote by many thousands of years, than the suspicion of either of the others, and by savages almost at the bottom of the human scale; that is, some form of suggestion or hypnosis. Yet after all, the psychical method has always played an important though unrecognized part in therapeutics. It is from faith, which buoys up the spirits, sets the nerves playing their parts without disturbance, that a large part of all cures arise. Despondency, or lack of faith, will often sink the stoutest constitution almost to death's door; faith will enable a bread-pill or a spoonful of clear water to do almost miracles of healing, when the best medicines have been given over in despair. The basis of the entire profession of medicine is faith in the doctor and his drugs and his methods. "Its (hypnotism) possibilities have been greatly exaggerated, not so much by the claims of persons using it, as by the eager credulity of the public. It seems not to create a new condition of sensitiveness to suggestion, as to increase what normally exists. Its great service has been found to be in various affections which may all be classed as of the nervous system: Hysteria, spasmodic functional complaints, children's vicious habits, and the victims of the drug and alcohol habits; occasionally in childbirth and surgery."
I feel that my purpose in this book which is to show the student that there are no occult or hidden or mysterious powers in all these phenomena has been accomplished. That the one Law of Suggestion is at work in them all. That the old ideas and theories of hypnotism are false. It is not Hypnotism but Suggestion that is cause. We are through this Law learning to control our fate. This knowledge will bless mankind by removing from it the fear which now prevents the universal application of Suggestion and Hypnosis for the cure of all ills of "body, mind and estate."
Knowing that this book has not only instructed but has stimulated and given courage to thousands already for the overcoming of Life's unpleasant conditions, I gladly send forth this new edition to continue the good work its predecessors have begun. This consciousness that I have a place in the thought and love of so many encourages me still to write and work. In Love and Truth I am your friend,
San Francisco, March 15th, 1906.
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Hopping out of the car at Rowter Farm just to the South of Winnats Pass caused more than just me to shiver this morning. The wind blowing in from the south cut right through any non-windproof clothes with biting insistence. I was glad I'd opted for leggings+shorts and had waterproof trousers tucked in my rucksack just in case. Some of those in shorts were less than happy. It was so chilly that I did my final prep with clothes, watch, bag etc in the car with doors firmly closed.
Registration was in a shelter, thankfully out of the wind, which held me captive for a few moments while I braced myself for the start. I didn't have long to wait until the starting window opened, so by the time I'd finished sorting gear and taken an easy run up the track to the starting dibber it was close to 8.30am.
I was handed a map and did my usual trick of forgetting to start the watch...then the rabbit-in-the-headlights freeze gripped me for a few moments as I pondered which way to start. I decided on a vaguely clockwise route, seeing there may be more chances for me to bag a few late points on the east/south approach to Rowter Farm - if I had spare time.
|Back Tor and Lose Hill in the distance
By now I'd been going for about 45mins. Next came the climb back up to the Mam Tor ridge so I could traverse to CP19. Almost an hour in and it felt like I was now heading back to the finish....which was a good thing as I'd set myself a target of a minimum of 5 CPs and 2hours out. With no long runs done recently a 3hr event was a big ask. I don't like overstretching (as I'm liable to break) myself so was content with my plan.
|Looking into the Edale valley with Grindslow Knoll framed between the trees - a pause as I climb towards the ridge
|Looking west towards Mam Tor as I leave CP19
|Castleton village with Peveril Castle on the hillside above
|Looking up Cave Dale...and...Looking down Cave Dale with fellow mini-mm'ers ascending and descending to/from CP22
So, onwards and up Cave Dale, dibbing CP22 (and reattaching the flag to the iron gate before it blew
|Dibbing CP22 in Cave Dale
|CP3 looking towards Mam Tor
|Closer view of CP3
|Looking east from near CP1
|CP1 looking west towards the disused Eldon Hill Quarries
I felt weary. I also felt (and still do) very happy. 18km and 150 points in 2hrs 45mins and 22secs. I shall sleep well. That is, after downing a good bowl of beef stew that's been bubbling away in the slow cooker all day - I knew getting up early to put that on was a good idea.
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Hey guys! How are we already at the end of January? In a way, it seems like a long time since Christmas and in others, not at all. But I know there has been a lot of new releases this month that have been super exciting (and some controversial!) so I thought I would do a summary. I'm thinking of doing this as a monthly series and you guys can make the decisions on whether you buy them or not. Some of these may not be entirely new but new to the UK sites that I've included. There will be both drugstore (although, there wasn't much 🙁 ) and high end in this line up.
Let's get down to it!
- Lime Crime Plushies Liquid Lipstick, £15 for 3.5ml at Cult Beauty. Lime Crime is a brand that I am really interested in trying and I will in the future, for certain! But for a high end lipstick, this isn't a bad price at all. They come in 13 different shades, they claim to be touch-proof and all day comfortable wear.
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Mini Matte Lipstick Set, £22 at Cult Beauty. I always think that ABH products are overpriced, even though they are good quality but when you break this down, the individual lipsticks (you get 4 in the set) are £5.50 each which is very reasonable. They're minis, though, obviously so they're only 1.3g. They claim to have an ultra matte finish and they're all nude shades.
- Becca Ocean Jewels Eye Palette, £32 for 14g of product. Again, I think Becca is really overpriced. This palette has 7 shades, 4 shimmery and 3 matte shades which makes it about £4.50 per shade. Each shade, too, is about 2g of product. They claim to have rich colour pay off – I've never tried Becca products before but this palette is beautiful. You can get this at Cult Beauty.
- Nyx Cosmetics Love You So Mochi Eyeshadow Palette, £18 for 13.3g. Is it just me or is Nyx creeping a little more into high-end prices? The highlighter partner to this was £17 for 3 shades of highlighter which is quite pricey! I saw this palette on RawbeautyKirsty and it looks so interesting. It's really soft and bouncy so I'm tempted to buy it myself. There's 10 shades in the palette (you can get two different versions) which makes it £1.80 per shade. Which isn't bad but the depth of the shade is 0.7g which is tiny. You can get this from Boots.
- Storybook Cosmetics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Eyeshadow Palette, £45. There's no information about the sizes of the shades so I can't give that to you but there are 12 shades all inspired by the characters from the beloved book. I think it's such a cute and interesting idea! You can get this from Beauty Bay.
- Too Faced Born This Way Foundation, £29 for 30ml of product. This is by no means a new product, it's been around for so long. But it's only just come to Cult Beauty, giving us UK lot another place where we can find Too Faced products. I'm really interested to try this foundation, it claims to be medium to full coverage and oil free. I know you're probably thinking aren't you going to say it's a lot of money? And yes, you're right; it is. But I never mind spending more money on skin products if I get along well with them – especially as I have sensitive skin. I see looking after your skin the same as looking part of every aspect of your health. It comes in 24 different shades which is good!
- Tarte Shape Tape Foundation, £35. Everyone and their mother knows about the controversy this foundation caused so I won't go into it and regurgitate the information but nobody can deny that this has made a storm within the makeup industry. It comes in both matte and dewy finishes and is full coverage – a foundation dupe of the famous Shape Tape concealer.
- Makeup Revolution Conceal & Define Concealer, £4. If you want to see my review of this concealer then click here!
So, there you have it! I know there's not many drugstore products on here so if you guys have anything that you know I've missed then please let me know in the comments below! Also let me know if you would be interested in seeing this sort of post again in February.
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You may need to sit down. Take a breather. The State Fair is beyond space-epic, at this point. You've eaten a good chunk of the fair's fried foods already, haven't you? Maybe a giant, throbbing red pickle or too? (Maybe you're throbbing too). If you're not at critical mass yet, nearing a supernova blast going off in your lowers -- careful and you just may collapse into yourself, creating a super dense center...
Speaking of super dense centers, the Dr Pepper "Fry-tastic" Cake Competition was held at Fair Park on Tuesday (why didn't they have it on FRY-day?!?).
Here's what happened: Abel Gonzales, known to us mortals as the "king of deep-frying," selected the winning cake out of dozens of contestants. The Dr Pepper 125th anniversary cake contest winner, a Dr Pepper Black Forest cake by Julie Ray of Fort Worth -- who jokingly renamed her creation "The Ha-Ha I Won Cake" on the spot -- was then fried on premises by Gonzales.
Thus, presenting, Abel Gonzales' "Deep-Fried Dr Pepper Cake"...
2. The winning cake was rolled into balls.
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5. A super-secret Dr Pepper sauce, whip cream and powdered sugar: there you go, fried Dr Pepper Cake balls.
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FEBRUARY: Not a bad week really, except for the fact that money was flowing out but not coming in, as February is not a good month for B&Bs. Why is it everyone seems to feel the same about January and February? Most people, like me, seem to have so many bills to pay. The bills go up each year, especially the heating bills. Interest rates are rubbish so what's the point in saving. February is the month when I get my dear old Skoda taxed and MOT'd. It cost me quite a bit for repairs but it's been such a good car, it's worth it and Tim, who sees to it for me, advises me to hang on to it as he says modern cars are a nightmare to repair. It has only let me down twice in 12 years and seems to go forever on a single tank of petrol. This is also the month for having repairs done on the house as no B&B guests are about. So this year, it's a new kitchen to replace the old one in No 1, which was probably bought into the modern age about 70 years ago with running water and electricity. The big old sink was reluctant to come out and the pipework behind it gave the builder a bit of a turn, but everything is well on the way now.
THE ORCHARD: Olly and his mate came to prune our old orchard, which needed a really good going over. Every year, we have a fruit glut, but maybe this year it will take a rest to recover.
BETTER OFF: So we oldies are better off by £20 per week, according to the newspapers. Could it be that's because we were taught by our parents to save for a rainy day, even if it was a small amount per week? We were also taught if you can't afford it, don't buy it. Also we nearly all had the little boxes for rent, gas, electricity, holidays, Christmas, birthdays etc which all had an allocated amount per week put into them, so never got into debt or owed anyone anything. Anything left over from wages, we could spend on what we called luxuries, like having your hair done, going to the cinema or theatre.
MY COUSIN: Who helps with a food bank in Hove, was recently shocked when one of the clients asked her if she liked his new tattoo, which he had gone up to London to get done and cost £300. Because she is a helper, she is not allowed to comment when on duty, but she said to me how upset she was, because that person gave a bad name to people who were generally desperate to get by day by day.
LARGE SINK: One of the large sinks that I advertised in the Parish Pump last week went very quickly. These sinks are much sought after by the modern generation. The door, which I found out is pine and very old, plus one more sink have yet to go. All money made from them is going to a local Hospice in memory of my mother who died on October 31, 2016.
THE GARDEN: I also have quite a few young bay trees, from a height of about 2ft to 4ft, growing in the garden, which have to come out. As they are so expensive in garden centres, I am quite happy for anyone interested to come and dig up what they need and give me yet again a small donation for the Hospice.
LETTERS: There were some good letters in last week's Letters' Page, one from D Myles of Newhaven, another from Jon Gunson of Lewes and another on a subject close to my heart, from Rod Main of Northfield Close, who appears to really understand the plight of the elderly, uninitiated in modern technology. His letter applied to many of the people I know, including me. Things are just moving too fast, with some of us finding it difficult to keep up with. In fact, I am at present bringing some of these subjects up with Care for the Carers, and I would be happy to know others who are having difficulties on this subject. If it is not brought to the authorities' attention, things will go from bad to worse. For many years now, I have been mentioning in the Parish Pump about the problems, which will affect an older generation if the Government doesn't get the situation sorted. It appears that yet again my predictions are coming true.
THINGS ARE CHANGING: So much between the young and the old. We had my Grandmother living with us (as did many) and we looked after her for years, as it was the right thing to do, to look after your parents, as they had looked after you. Circumstances now make it difficult for the young to do it as much, because the wives have to work as well as the husbands to support the household, especially with mortgages. Then there are those who do not want to devote their lives to caring for parents because they have grown used to a lifestyle of travel and going out and about, and can't cope with giving up this freedom. One has to ask will their children look after them in their old age, as children follow in the ways of their parents. I am often astounded how families neglect their own. I am very lucky to have wonderful friends and a family who keep a look out for each other.
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So, you're looking to start Content Marketing and you want to become a Pro Blogger. Today I'm going to take you through some basics that will help you get started right.
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The other is my mentor, upline, and friend, Ray Higdon and his blogging training.
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In Transit from Davao City to Enchanted River and Sibadan Fish Cage in Hinatuan
We arrived at Davao at exactly 9pm and shortly after, we joined the Mt. Apo climber's party bash. Then at 230am, we took the Hinatuan-bound bus at Ecoland Terminal. It was already noontime when we reached Hinatuan the following day. At the Hinatuan terminal we chartered a habalhabal to Enchanted River; it took us nearly 30 minutes and wilder than our prior Tinuy-an falls ride.
This part of Surigao del Sur was missed during our Butuan-Bislig-Davao trip.
We had bliss at Enchanted River where we lingered until 4pm. We witnessed the fish feeding but the rain however foiled the clear view.
The Agaton storm slowly made its way with relentless downpour but we managed to cross the Sibadan Fish Cage for our overnight stay.
With the storm, we were restrained in our rooms. As we were on stilts, we can feel the wave underneath and its swayish beat. Before the night progresses, a fever caught me and I was obliged to retire. I felt helpless as I trembled with the rocking waves getting intense. I prayed that the fever be gone soon. The hard part of travelling took its toll – unwanted illness, far from home and in the middle of a storm.
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This giant resembles a 9-foot tall humanoid with soot-colored skin, dark eyes, and dark hair. It is dressed in dirty, soot-covered clothes, and its hands are caked with dirt and filth
Smoke Giant
NE Large humanoid (air, extraplanar, fire, giant)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +9
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16 (+3 Dex, +7 natural, –1 size)
hp 76 (9d8+36)
Fort +10; Ref +6; Will +5
Defensive Abilities rock catching; Immune fire
Weaknesses vulnerability to cold
Speed 40 ft.
Melee heavy mace +12/+7 (2d6+6), 2 slams +11 (1d8+6)
Ranged rock +9 (1d8+9 plus 1d6 fire)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks heated rock, rock throwing (120 ft.)
Spell-like Abilities (CL 9th):
3/day—smoke (as fog cloud)
Str 22, Dex 16, Con 19, Int 8, Wis 11, Cha 12
Base Atk +6; CMB +13; CMD 26
Feats Combat Reflexes, Iron Will, Martial Weapon Proficiency (heavy mace), Power Attack, Weapon Focus (heavy mace)
Skills Fly +9, Intimidate +6, Perception +9, Stealth +3 (+11 in areas of fog or smoke); Racial Modifiers +8 Stealth in areas of fog or smoke
Languages Giant
SQ smoke form
Gear heavy mace
Heated Rock (Su)
Smoke giants transfer the heat of their bodies to rocks as part of an attack action when they throw rocks. A heated rock deals 1d6 points of additional fire damage on a hit.
Smoke Form (Su)
A smoke giant's form is solid. As a free action it can change to a smoky form. It can switch forms once per round as a free action and can spend up to 20 rounds per day in smoke form. In smoke form, a smoke giant can fly at a speed of 50 feet (perfect). This ability is otherwise similar to a gaseous form spell (caster level 9th).
Smoke Giant Characters
Smoke giants must possess nine levels of giant Hit Dice before taking class levels. Smoke giants are usually barbarians. Their reputation as thieves and murderers comes from their savagery in combat and their preference to use brute force rather than stealth to accomplish their goals. Leaders are barbarians and shamans are adepts or clerics with access to two of the following domains: Air, Fire, Strength. Smoke giant characters possess the following racial traits.
- +12 Strength, +6 Dexterity, +8 Constitution, –2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma: Smoke giants are strong and hardy and possess a forceful personality.
- Large size: Smoke giants are Large and have the following adjustments: –1 penalty to Armor Class, –1 penalty on attack rolls, –4 penalty on Stealth checks, +1 bonus on CMB/CMD, lifting and carrying limits double those of Medium characters.
- Space/Reach: 10 feet/10 feet.
- Fast: A smoke giant's base speed is 40 feet.
- Darkvision: A smoke giant can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
- Low-light vision: Smoke giants can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.
- Racial Hit Dice: A smoke giant begins with nine levels of humanoid (giant), which provides it with 9d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +6, and base saving throws of Fort +6, Ref +2, and Will +2.
- Racial Skills: A smoke giant's giant levels give it skill points equal to 9 x (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Smoke giants add Intimidate and Perception to their list of class skills. In areas of fog or smoke, a smoke giant gets a +8 racial bonus on Stealth checks.
- Racial Feats: A smoke giant's giant levels give it five feats.
- AC: Smoke giants have a +6 natural armor bonus
- Natural Weapons: Smoke giants can fight with two slams (1d8)
- Special Attacks: Heated rock (sea left), rock throwing
- Spell-Like Abilities: A smoke giant can cast smoke (as fog cloud) three times per day, using his levels in humanoid as his caster level.
- Special Qualities: Immunity to fire, rock catching, smoke form (see left).
- Languages: Smoke giants begin play speaking Giant. Smoke giants with high Intelligence can choose bonus languages from the following list: Common, Auran, Goblin, Ignan, Orc.
Environment Plane of Molten Skies
Organization solitary, gang (2–5), band (6–9 plus 25% noncombatants), hunting party (6–9 plus 1 leader of 3rd level), or tribe (20–40 plus 25% noncombatants, 1 shaman of 4th level or higher, and 1 leader of 6th level or higher)
Treasure standard
Smoke giants are evil giants known for their ruthlessness. Among other races they have a nasty reputation for being thieves and murderers, even killing their own kind if the end result serves the betterment of the one doing the killing. They are generally reclusive creatures, keeping to their own devices and rarely having anything to do with outside races, which suit the other races just fine as most don't trust smoke giants at all.
Smoke giants encountered away from their tribe are usually members of a hunting or raiding party. While they are generally able to consume just about anything they can catch and kill, smoke giants prefer the flesh of smoke mephits above anything else. Regardless of what they eat, a smoke giant always covers its food in a thick layer of soot before consuming it (it tastes better that way). Prey that is captured but not slaughtered is stored in large soot-filled pits until ready to be devoured.
Smoke giants do not engage in trade with other races. They sometimes form alliances with other tribes of giants (usually ogres or trolls), but most such alliances are short-lived because of the general distrust of smoke giants. Alliances even between tribes of smoke giants are rare.
A smoke giant stands about 9 feet tall and weighs about 800 pounds.
Smoke giants begin combat by hurling rocks in an effort to scatter their opponents. After this, the giants rush into battle swinging their huge maces. A favorite tactic employed by some smoke giant bands is to have one or two of them envelop their opponents in smoke (using their smoke spell-like ability) while the rest pummel them with their weapons.
Smoke giants encountered near the Tempest of Embers on the Plane of Molten Skies like to grab their foes and toss them into that cyclone of burning air.
Smoke Giant from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Author Scott Greene.


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