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IN DEFENCE OF: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
In 1984, Krueger was a child murdering bastard, in 1989 there were four year old kids wearing green and red striped pyjamas, running around with plastic gloves. This is something quite alarming for a character who has heavily underlying themes of sexual abuse towards these very ages groups. The creator of the 'Nightmare' franchise, Wes Craven has now embraced the general public's love of his Frankenstein monster, but around the time between 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child' and 'Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare', things were out of control, Freddy actually became one of the most famous characters in the world. Think about that, a heavily burned, child murdering, psychopath became very much like a late night talk show host; puns here, puns there, slice and dice, next sequel please!
Craven was not silent on how disapproving he was of New Line Cinema's choice to market Freddy as the loveable goof ball who, on occasion, disembowels a teenage girl with dreams of being a model and feeding it to her. After 1991, it appeared that the franchise was done and dusted. No more Freddy Krueger...for the moment at least. What was happening behind the doors of New Line Cinema were discussions of teaming Krueger up against Jason Voorhees from the 'Friday The 13th' franchise, something we wouldn't see for another decade. Instead, New Line reached out to Craven, offering some compensation cash that he felt he was entitled to with the success of his franchise (rightly so, too), words were battered back and forth between both parties and from that, Craven decided to use an idea that he had been spinning around in his head since 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors' several years earlier. To bring Freddy into the real world. Now, I know, they did this in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge' in 1985, but this time it really would be the real world. Our world. This concept developed into 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare', a film that I feel is still very much underrated despite the fact that more people are beginning to see how good this entry really is.
You may ask why I'm reviewing this, 'New Nightmare' currently holds a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it can't be that under appreciated, surely? Actually, many feel that it's very disjointed from the franchise and is a stand-alone title, rather the opposite, this film is the perfect ending to the entire Elm Street franchise and it's still not fully understood, at the helm, 'New Nightmare' is a very intelligent film that surpasses any subtext that 90% of horror films manage to achieve. Where the previous Nightmare films made you question what was real and what was a dream, this film makes you question what is real and what is part of a film. Reality and fiction start to blend into one another. The actors of the original Nightmare begin to merge with their film counterpart, slowly but surely throughout the course of the plot until they have eventually become the embodiment of the character they portrayed. This is basically the plot of the film, although it's not technically Freddy who's actually Freddy...if that makes sense. Basically, Craven has been having a lack of nightmares, his inspiration to make horror films and the original Nightmare film itself. Freddy is in fact a very real demon that Craven has dreamt of, the demon will every so often take a liking to a particular story, become attached and eventually try to become the story. The only way to keep the demon at bay is through the use to continuously passing on the story and telling it, but since there are no more sequels being made to the Nightmare franchise, the demon is trying to break loose into reality using Freddy's image and personality.
Whether or not Craven is a good film maker is up to personal opinion, but when the man gets something right, god damn does he get it right. The acting might get a little hammy in some places and the plot can go on without much happening from time to time, but really, are you going to say that Freddy doing a Margaret Hamilton routing or driving a bus is better than this film?
As stated, 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare' takes place in contemporary Los Angeles. It's the tenth anniversary of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and Heather Langenkamp, who plays herself, is beginning to have odd dreams that heavily involve her child, Dylan and a new five bladed version of the Freddy glove. This film is radically different in tone from the rest of the franchise and from any other horror film, now that it springs to mind. I won't go on about the history of the making of this film, you can watch 'Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy' for that, but what Craven managed to conceive was the first meta-horror film. Hell, the trailer for this film includes some of the making-of footage from the film!
'Freddy' has a complete redesign. The basics are still there, but his sweater is now more tightly sewn together, he wears a large trench coat with the green and red pattern on the inside fabric, his burns are more like demonic scars, his hat is now a faded green and his signature glove now looks very organic, looking like it is part of his actual hand, with the aforementioned five blades stemming from the fingertips, instead of four. Also, leather pants. Come on, this look is fucking amazing. I really want to say it's my favourite look of Freddy, ever, but nostalgia still pushes me towards classic glove Freddy, but damn is his redesign brilliant, far better than Voldemort-Krueger from ye remake that shall not be named. It's safe to say, he's once again a scary presence in this film and fits the appearance of Craven's original vision for the character.
At its core, New Nightmare is a commentary on violence in the media. Craven himself has been accused numerous times of being a perpetrator of violent entertainment, leading to violent behaviour. We've all heard the dross that the paparazzi like to attach to horror entertainment. Although this is a very early blueprint for his other smash horror series, 'Scream', New Nightmare makes a mark for itself by exploring these issues through the Heather Langenkamp and her son. Some of the events in this film are factual to Heather's life and it's clear they gave her the push to give a fantastic performance, outdoing the strong female presence of Nancy in any other appearance within the franchise. We explore the ideas of what message violent entertainment is sending to the younger generation with Heather's son gradually becoming more and more odd, is it just the aftershock of seeing a brutal horror film or is it something more sinister? One scene shows us Dylan coming after Heather with four kitchen knives taped to his fingertips, hissing and growling in a Freddy-like way, another shows us a live television interview featuring an audience all dressed in Freddy merchandise who lose their shit when Robert Englund comes out in full make-up (in their defence though, I would too), relishing in the fandom and proclaiming; "You are all my children now!".
Craven gave birth to this monster of a franchise and he gives it some much needed nourishment, the whole film still feels really fresh twenty years later, despite the obvious technical aging, the effects are some of the most elaborate seen in the entire Nightmare franchise, the highway scene is absolute madness. This is the first time that Krueger actually goes after his target victim, a child, and the danger is heavily built up throughout the course of the film, Langenkamp and Miko Hughes have a very convincing mother-son relationship, I will say outright that Langenkamp is her absolute best in this film. Robert Englund again gives a phenomenal performance as Freddy, bringing him back to his frightening roots and having a very serpent-like performance with his movement, the new glove gets a lot of screen time with movements that almost seem hypnotic.
New Nightmare isn't without its problems, as I mentioned, some of the acting can be a bit over the top and hammy, but what horror film doesn't have this? Look at Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's a modern masterpiece that's utterly flamboyant with the cast portrayal. I will admit, where the final act takes place is totally off the rails and should've been a boiler room (spoiler alert, it isn't). How could it NOT be a boiler room?! But I do rank this film in my top ten horror films (and films in general) of all time, I really cannot recommend it enough. I'm glad to see that more and more people are beginning to appreciate how good and intelligent this film is, but I still feel that there is room for more appreciation. For those who hated it at first to not look at it as another slasher sequel, but rather another horror stemming from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, a horror very real and very present today, which we all embrace.
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Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, "Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps in circumventing them." New disclosures this week have catapulted the Hamburg-based Iranian bank EIH, the German Foreign Ministry, and Germany's central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) into a security disaster over Germany's use of its bank system to finance Iran's nuclear and missile programs. Apparently, the terror bank EIH — which the U.S. Treasury sanctioned "as one of Iran's few remaining access points to the European financial system" — simply colluded with the Bundesbank and the Foreign Ministry to bypass EU and U.S. sanctions.
The German Foreign Ministry, which is run by the Free Democratic Party's Guido Westerwelle, rubber-stamped massive Iran oil transactions totaling 9 billion euros. That is precisely the kind of revenue necessary to advance the Iranian regime's drive to go nuclear; contribute to the lethal repression of Iran's pro-democracy movement; and inject new financial life into Ahmadinejad's terror proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Bush administration enjoyed remarkable success in pressuring German chancellor Angela Merkel to recoil from some of her country's pro-Iran bank policies — including twisting her arm to pull the plug on German banks active in Iran — but Obama's verbal powers have proved to be largely impotent. It is worth recalling that President Obama called Chancellor Merkel last year and urged her to shut the EIH operation, according to veteran columnist John Vinocur: "[I] have been told that similar reluctance, this time involving German hesitation to clamp down on a bank in Hamburg facilitating suspect European deals with Iran, resulted in a recent phone call, to no immediate avail, from Mr. Obama to Chancellor Angela Merkel."
(This comes at a time when Germany has drifted dramatically away from the West during the Libyan conflict. French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has said, "We lost a great deal of time in Libya because of the Germans.")
Over at The Weekly Standard, my colleagues Mark Dubowitz and Laura Grossman note:
President Obama made sanctions on Iran's energy sector a central part of his strategy in dealing with Tehran. With Iran continuing its march toward obtaining nuclear weapons, the selection of a single Iranian company and now a lone Belarusian one — among scores of companies that are now likely in violation of U.S. sanctions law — has not inspired congressional confidence. Nor are these sanctions likely to frighten major players in the international energy industry.
In short, while the first Merkel administration feared that George W. Bush would penalize German banks and firms because of their flourishing Iran business deals, the second Merkel administration sees Obama's Iran-sanctions strategy as wallowing in non-enforcement. All of this helps to explain why Chinese and Russian firms — two of the major sanctions-busters — are not running scared from the Obama administration either.
If Obama takes up the business of Iran sanctions with pressing urgency, he should sanction those Western, Russian, and Chinese energy companies violating the comprehensive U.S. energy sanctions. As for jolting the financial violators, he should start by imposing tough penalties on Germany's central bank for feeding Iran's illegal nuclear program with invaluable revenue at a time when the West seeks to cut off the economic lifeline that enables Iran's domestic repression and its nukes.
— Benjamin Weinthal is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.


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Hi, Hey, Hello! TGIF!
Even though I've been working solely from home the last two weeks I still look forward to the weekends. I'm trying to create a schedule for myself where I get in all of my hours Monday - Friday so Saturday and Sunday are designated for rest, blog photos, and time with Justin and Heidi. It's easier said than done, as working from home can be distracting, but it seems to be getting easier and easier. My biggest problem is waking up early...as always. I'd love to get up at 5:30 am or even 6:30 am but it seems my internal alarm doesn't go off until 7 am or 8 am. Which I know is still decently early but I feel most productive as the day is just beginning. If I drag my feet and it gets later in the day I tend to get frustrated with myself and my productivity plummets. Does this happen to any of you?
Today I'm super excited to share with you some new products I just started using and one I haven't even tried! While at Target this past week I stumbled upon the perfect travel makeup bag for less than $25. It's incredibly cute for one, two, it's big enough for what I would still call an excessive amount of product, and three, it has three compartments so you can actually stay organized while away. One large compartment on the bottom, a brush holder in the middle, and a small zipper pocket on top. I hate how my usual makeup bags are like a big black hole where everything falls to the bottom and you end up taking it all out and setting it on the hotel bathroom counter...and, in the end, you just make a big mess. And it's glaringly obvious to your boyfriend you own too much makeup. OMG is that even a thing though?!
Another fun find is this baby pink coffee tumbler that says "Coffee Is My BFF." If you know me even a little, you'll know I love coffee and I love coffee mugs. I even cleaned out the kitchen cabinet today and threw away five or six mugs and tumblers I don't use anymore. I hate excess and it helped me to justify keeping this new adorable addition. The only downside is you can't microwave it because of the gold lettering which really drives me nuts, but it's cute enough for me to justify heating my coffee up in one cup and pouring back into this one haha! It was actually in the Mother's Day section of Nordstrom and would make a great gift for Mom...with maybe a gift card for Starbucks inside! Also, Nords is doing triple points until the 7th so this is the time to buy.
While I was out running errands yesterday I had to make a pit stop at Ulta to find some at-home gel polish remover. I refuse to pay someone to take it off for me and now I can do it myself! It was super cheap and I figure a great thing to have on hand. I was hoping my old gel would peel off as it's been three weeks, but no such luck (they did such a good job this stuff isn't budging). While in Ulta I also picked up some Triple Sec texturizer, amplifier, refresher for my hair. So many of you ask what I use to get volume when teasing and this is going to be my new go-to. It smells divine! And I love that it's multipurpose. One of my friends brought this to Vegas and I knew I needed to get some for myself. The last thing I picked up was some Tarte Shape Tape because everyone and their mother has raved and carried on about it. I haven't used it yet, but from the reviews, I'll never use another concealer. I was surprised how large the applicator is so we will see how it works out!
Okay, this next product is by far my favorite and a HUGE find for me because it's going to save me lotsss of money going forward. And that's a new favorite foundation! It doesn't happen often, as many of you know, and rarely does it happen for less than $13...Oh, Em Gee...a steal! I'd heard lots of good things about Loreal's Infallible Foundation but had been too lazy to give it a try. Mostly because it's drugstore and it always gives me anxiety trying to figure out my correct shade. Luckily, you can see the product through the packaging which makes things a little bit easier. I ended up matching the color with my Maybelline Fit Me Shade so I knew it would be correct. And it was! And sorry Maybelline, I love this one more! I purchased the pro-glow version because I wanted that "luminous finish" but it also comes in pro-matte if you have oily skin, especially in the summer heat.
Phew! Five products down, four to go. I sure am feeling long winded today lol. In the pictures and links above you'll find three Benefit products that I recently received from HSN. I totally got sucked in one day sitting on my couch flipping channels. What is it about shopping networks that make things seem one million times better than you ever thought was possible?! The Benefit gals were no different and they sold me in about five seconds. And I work in marketing. But, I have to say they sold me for all the right reasons. My favorite is the Gimmie Brow Brow-Volumizing Fiber Gel. I hate doing my eyebrows and this gel is amazing. I think the reason I'm actually excited (for the first time) to use this is because the wand is so small. You don't end up getting the gel on your forehead and it adheres to the hairs like glue. Highly recommend!
The set I received also included Roller Lash, Benefit's new must-have mascara. I used a sample once and thought "ehhh" but that's why
samples suck...excuse me...that's why samples aren't a great way to try out things like mascara. I am so pleased with it and might actually call it my current favorite! Lastly, is the blush called GALifornia, which I love now that I live in California. It's like it was made for me haha. It has a really pleasant smell and gorgeous gold flecks. I apologize I didn't get a picture of the actual color - total brain fart - but you can easily view it through the link online. It's less pigmented than I originally thought but that's okay because I love a sheer wash of color for spring and summer.
The set I received also included Roller Lash, Benefit's new must-have mascara. I used a sample once and thought "ehhh" but that's why
Alright, I saved the prettiest and pinkest for last! While perusing for triple points I had to make a pit stop at the Chanel counter. I'd seen this baby pink sheer lip gloss called Icing online and needed to see it in person pronto! I've never met a light pink or nude gloss I didn't fall head over heels for. While at the counter I found out that Chanel just redid their entire lip gloss collection with a whole new color range. This is now the lightest and sheerest of pinks. I love it alone on low maintenance days or over top of a darker nude lipstick. This one's a splurge but you can't go wrong with Chanel!
Woohoo! You made it all the way through! I probably should have forewarned you that you needed some coffee and a snack. Thank you for reading and have a beautiful weekend!


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With 5 to 9 inches of snow hitting the Philadelphia region on Monday, plenty of local schools and institutions were closed.
Closures and delays for Tuesday with be posted blow. Your best bet is to call ahead to your school or institution if you have any concerns if a place might not be opened.


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Flying Solo
Travelling alone for the first time can be a very difficult, yet extremely rewarding experience. There are a few things you can do to make your journey easier, feel braver and be prepared for what's ahead.
Keep all your travel documents available at all times until your final destination, if it makes things easier, invest in a travel wallet big enough to hold your passport, boarding passes, tickets and other travel documents you need.
If you're waiting more than a couple of hours in an airport you might be tempted to go to sleep somewhere or you may lose track of time getting lost in the duty free shops or in the lounge, to avoid missing your flight, set an alarm for the time your gate opens or for about 45 minutes before your flight departure.
Getting an extra 40 winks at the airport is a great way to pass time if you're travelling alone, but make sure you know where your bags are at all times! Use your hand luggage as a pillow and put your arm or legs over your checked baggage (if you haven't yet checked it) so that nobody can try to tamper with your luggage whilst you're asleep.
For solo travellers who want to get through the airport quickly to catch a connection, a bus or a train, you can choose a seat either at the very front or at the very back (which is cheaper than sitting at the front) so that you will be one of the first off the plane and the first in the queue at passport check.
Don't be afraid to ask people for directions, tips or help along the way. Most people will be willing to help and you might even make a new friend or travel buddy, if not just somebody to chat to during the flight.
Pack as lightly as possible; with nobody to help carry your bags, you don't want to be left lumped with way too much stuff that it takes you hours just to cross the airport and get to the taxi stand. Plus, with nobody to look after your stuff whilst you go to the toilet or order food, it's always good to be able to carry your things and have at least one hand free for other jobs, like checking maps, taking a phone call or carrying your passport.
When choosing your accommodation, go for a hostel or hotel with 24 hour reception. Especially if you're not arriving during the day, or if you stay out late whilst you're away, you'll be thankful to have somewhere secure to return to and not have to stand waiting to be let in when you're in an unknown place.
Give your family your contact information, accommodation details, flight schedule and itinerary during your stay. It will give them (and you) peace of mind.
Take a book. Travelling alone can be easier than travelling with people because you have the freedom to plan whatever you want to do, it can be liberating and much more meaningful than travelling with others- but it can also be very hard. And when you're feeling lonely, one of the best ways to switch off and escape your loneliness is with a good book – bonus points for travellers who read books set in the destination their visiting!
Trust your gut and have fun.
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The first parent lined up at 4 a.m. on a Sunday, when the only other people around were out just long enough to stumble from warm taxis through sobering 19-degree air into their homes.
Twenty minutes later, other parents showed up and a line began to form down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. One father kept a list so that anyone searching for a thawing hot coffee could do so without losing a place in the line. He abandoned that project as more and more people trickled in and the end of the line was no longer visible from the front.
Some parents stood, shimmying and hopping to keep warm. A few line veterans brought chairs and buried themselves under blankets. It was too dark to read, so they chatted about things like schools or children, and they poked fun at one another for being there. Every few minutes, someone would check his watch and express the hope that Carmelo the Science Fellow would open his doors early for his annual summer camp registration.
If waiting in line in the predawn of a January morning for science camp registration sounds crazy, you do not have a New York City child born after 2004. For those children and their parents, especially in the neighborhoods of brownstone Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan and the Upper West Side, not getting into activities, classes, sports teams — and even local schools — has become a way of life. If every generation must have its own designation, call theirs Generation Waiting List.
Looking for a spot in a public prekindergarten program in Lower Manhattan? Put your name on the waiting list.
Ballet for 3-year-olds at the Mark Morris Dance Group in Fort Greene, Brooklyn? The class is full, but they do have a waiting list.
Parks department swim classes? Full. But maybe you can get on a waiting list.
At first blush, the waiting lists are a little surprising, given that in the city there were 7 percent fewer children 9 and younger in 2011 than there were in 2000, according to census findings. Indeed, every borough has seen a decrease in children in that age range.
But the distribution of children is highly uneven, and some neighborhoods, especially those deemed "family friendly," have seen population explosions that outpace the general population growth, according to an analysis of census data by Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College.
In Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan, the 9 and younger population has grown by 129 percent over the last decade; uptown, the Lincoln Square neighborhood has seen a 56 percent growth.
In Brooklyn, Park Slope had a 2 percent increase, and its more affordable neighbor, Windsor Terrace, grew by 11 percent. The mostly Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood saw a 25 percent increase.
"The people having kids these days, they are a lot more well off," Professor Beveridge said, "so those parents are much more likely to have kids who are clients" — of summer camps, music schools and the like.
On Laura Congleton's first day of motherhood, she waited for a delivery room at what is now NYU Langone Medical Center. So many mothers were giving birth, they were kept in waiting areas until delivery rooms became available, she recalled. Five years later, she is still waiting — this time for kindergarten. In her Brooklyn Heights neighborhood and adjoining Cobble Hill, the number of children under age 9 has jumped 31 percent since 2000, leaving her son on the waiting list at local private schools.
"There are too many kids," Ms. Congleton said, and too few spaces for them. "I just wish there was more room."
In some cases, the growth in the numbers of children clamoring to get into the same activities outpaces even the demographic change. Nationally, enrollment in the American Youth Soccer Organization has dropped 8 percent over the last five years. But in the Brooklyn region that encompasses Ditmas Park, Kensington and Park Slope, and draws players from Brooklyn Heights and Carroll Gardens as well, the number of children under 8 who play has jumped 43 percent in the past seven years, to 600 children from 420, said Ainslie Binder, the region's director.
Except for Brooklyn Heights and Windsor Terrace, the under-9 population from many of the neighborhoods feeding the league grew by only a few percentage points. Registration for the fall season is open for a month, from June 1 to July 1, but "it's like anything in the city; if you don't jump on it, you won't get in," said Elizabeth Kenney, a Brooklyn mother whose 9-year-old son was relegated to the waiting list last year and had to sit out the season.
Maria Lord also found that lesson out the hard way. Last year, she applied in July but found that every team was filled. Her son never made it off the waiting list. She does not plan to repeat her mistake. "We are definitely going to try to get in this year," she said. "There's this need for affordable team sports, but there aren't enough leagues and the demand is so great."
Besides population density, social mobility drives the waiting lists in certain neighborhoods, said Tamara Mose Brown, a sociologist who teaches at Brooklyn College. It is no longer a given that people who came to the city from the suburbs as single adults will return to them when they have families, she said. Those who stay tend to settle in neighborhoods where people are similarly educated and share like values. They want their children to experience the diversity and spontaneity of the city, but they also want to control the youngsters' exposure to those things by keeping them within a neighborhood bubble.
The more people bump into one another, the more ingrained a family becomes into a community and the more information will be exchanged about classes, or public schools. Those connections create cultural capital that helps families socially advance in their worlds. But it also puts them into competition for the limited number of slots for the most highly sought-after activities.
"All of this capital creates a certain type of anxiety among parents which, in turn, creates the 'waitlisted' child," Ms. Mose Brown said.
Brett Sonnenschein of Carroll Gardens feels that anxiety. He was one of those standing in line to register for Carmelo's science camp. Six years ago, when his daughter was applying for a private pre-K, he and his wife did not rush down on the first day applications were available for their first-choice school. Their daughter ended up on a waiting list there. Ever since, Mr. Sonnenschein has been conscientious about tapping into playground gossip on what programs fill up first — and what steps to take to avoid ending up on the waiting list. "We've had many years of paranoia about this kind of thing," he said with a laugh.
Havona Madama's fear of waiting lists led her to start a database to track her 5-year-old daughter's favorite classes and their registration deadlines. Two years ago, she decided to leave her law practice to turn her research into KidKlass.com, a hub of information for brownstone Brooklyn about classes, camps and all-important registration dates. The site is still being developed, but she counts 50 to 100 visitors a day who peruse the listings. Still to come, she said, is an "alert" system to let parents know what deadlines they are about to miss.
One of her more popular offerings is Camp Panic — a fair in May at which parents who have not made plans for their children can see which summer camps still have room. "I can't stand to be on a wait list," said Ms. Madama, who lives in Carroll Gardens. "I don't like to waste my time waiting to see what the schedule is going to be."
Technology has fueled the phenomenon. In 2012, the city moved to online registration for its free summer swim classes at its outdoor pools. The number of applicants jumped to 34,134, from 20,393 in 2011, when officials began to introduce the online application. (That year, four pools still required on-site, in-person registration. Most people got in.) Last summer, only 24,532 applications got spots.
Often, the activities that fill up fastest are the ones that are most affordable and most accessible, like the swim classes. At the Brooklyn Public Library in Bay Ridge, 25 children can be accommodated at the free story-time sessions. Parents and other caregivers routinely show up when the library opens at 10 a.m. to get a ticket for the 10:30 a.m. story times on Mondays and Wednesdays. On a recent Wednesday, tickets were snatched up within five minutes.
For children, waiting on a list for soccer or missing story time might not be a tragedy, but for parents, winding up on a list can mean having to put life on pause. In the Brooklyn line for science camp, the parents talked about how getting a spot could determine whether they could go to work on particular days, or whether they would have to spend extra money on a baby sitter.
At Public School 139 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, parents showed up at 5 a.m. on the second day of school to sign their children up for the city-financed after-school program run by a nonprofit community organization known as Camba. Because of budget cuts, slots in the program were cut back: this year, about 52,000 children are being served citywide, compared with 85,000 in 2009.
Sandra, a single mother, could not afford to line up then, because she did not have child care. As a result, her daughter, who had been in the program before, could not get in this year. "I wanted to cry my eyeballs out," said Sandra, who asked to be identified only by her first name to protect her job as a nanny. Instead, her daughter goes to a public library every afternoon, staying until 6 p.m., when it closes. Over the summer, Sandra reviewed with her daughter how to walk down the street, turn the corner and find the library. "I had to teach her to be responsible faster than normal. I had to have her grow up," she said. "She's only 8!"
Parents in the Riverdale section of the Bronx or in northern Manhattan have long taken their children farther south into Manhattan or ventured north into Westchester County for activities because their own neighborhoods had few. That is starting to change as offerings increase — but there are waiting lists, too. Leonisa Ardizzone opened Storefront Science in Washington Heights last year, and almost immediately had a waiting list for the first two weeks of her summer camp. She thinks this year will be similar.
Nearby in Inwood, Bread and Yoga has an after-school program offering classes like children's capoeira and art that fill up within the first week of registration. If you want in, you have to act fast, said Jo Flattery, a Washington Heights resident.
"It's just a fact of living in the city," Ms. Flattery said. She has learned not to discuss classes with her children until it is certain they will get in. She also follows a strategy that may add to the waiting lists. "You fill up every class you can, and you drop if you don't need it. Everyone overschedules — it's the only route to choice," she said.
The first year Carmelo the Science Fellow offered his summer camp, in 2006, there were 20 students a week. Now there are 120, and by 10 a.m. on the day of registration, most slots were filled. When the doors opened at 7 a.m. (an hour ahead of schedule), parents quietly filed past terrariums with heat lamps keeping snakes and lizards cozy.
Their wait ended at a desk where Carmelo Piazza and his wife, Karen, greeted many of them personally, with handshakes and kisses and questions about how the children had been.
Parents handed over a deposit and a form enrolling their children in camp and, just like that, on the last Sunday in January, their children's summers, and perhaps their own, fell into place.


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Princess Butterfly
Princess Butterfly Marsanne 2017
Princess Butterfly 2017 Marsanne offers aromas of citrus blossom, lemons and grapefruit that are reflected on a fresh and energetic palate of stone fruits, apple and pear. Minerally and tight in its youth, it is sure to become a wine of generosity and honeyed complexity with some bottle age.
Princess Butterfly
Princess Butterfly Marsanne 2017
Region: Central Victoria
Varietal: 100% Marsanne
Alcohol: 12.5%
Best Consumed: 2019 - 2024
Wine Accolades
87 POINTS James Halliday Wine Companion 2019
4.5 STARS WINESTATE Magazine Emerging Varietals Awards 2018
4.5 STARS WINESTATE Magazine Emerging Varietals Awards 2018
Viticulturist Notes
This wine is sourced from grapes grown in our vineyards in the Goulburn Valley region of Central Victoria. The individual varieties were harvested separately over a three week period in March. Picking and crushing was during the cool of the night to maintain freshness. Fermentation at cool temperatures for 7 days in stainless steel fermenters has helped enhance the pure, fresh clean flavours.
Wine Harvest Notes
Vintage 2017 is best described as a waiting game. The season was very long with fruit slow to ripen and although the urge just to pick it all was there, we had to bide our time until we had optimal flavours and ripeness. Once I made the decision to pick the grapes came in at an orderly pace, although increased yields due to the rain in spring made the juggling game in the winery even more challenging, with tank space at a premium. We made it through our marathon 2017 vintage and are thrilled with the exceptional quality including a number of really extraordinary parcels.
Food Recommendations
Marsanne and food are great friends and my Princess Butterfly Marsanne will pair well with all types of seafood and shellfish, particularly the special occasion varieties such as crab and lobster. She's also great company on her own at the end of a long, hot day.


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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Summer Sizzle
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Poppy, Greetings from Cambodia (I am visiting and traveling with my parents). This is a very sweet and creative post (as always!). ChristaReplyDelete
It was a super long winter here...and I am a summer girl, so I am entranced by your hot post! Besides, there's always air conditioning, right? Of course, not for the plants, but certainly for me! ;)ReplyDelete
wow!!! I'd love a dose of that heat right now...oh well this weekend calls for some:) thanks Poppy and for your visits to me as well!ReplyDelete
I can feel the sizzle from your photos, Poppy!ReplyDelete
Yes, I can feel the sizzle from your photos, too! Beautiful post!ReplyDelete
Hi Poppy, Having just been in Greece to experience the sun's intensity, I can understand the flowers' wilt. We wilted quite often ourselves under its intensity. Loved the zinnia (as we call them) closeup. Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs, JackieReplyDelete
Ooohh...such lovely blooms! And that pool look so very refreshing...it must have been for the bee too...lol! My favorite is the lovely reflective one at the end! Have a great Thursday!ReplyDelete
Have a beautiful summer and a fun weekend, as well! All the best! Alexa TReplyDelete
Your photos ALWAYS make me smile!ReplyDelete
as always your pictures are beautiful and inviting - have a wonderful day , rest of the week and weekend!ReplyDelete
have a fantastic summer. all pics are enchanting.ReplyDelete
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It does look hot there! I love the bright flowers against the white railing, it looks very Mediterranean to me (which makes sense, since it is!) :)ReplyDelete
Oh I missed Greek summer!AriadnefromGreece!ReplyDelete
I am so happy to have found you. Of all the places in the world that I would ever want to visit, Greece would be the top of the list. I'll be back! :)ReplyDelete
Love the poetry on this one and that last shot is wonderful! ( They all are but that's my favorite :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos!!ReplyDelete
good lord.ReplyDelete
i don't know what your dear husband does for a living...
but he has given you a veritable paradise!!!
you must feel like a queen!
no wonder you named the kitty prince richard. LOLOL. xo♥Replies
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I've talked about my husband's profession in previous posts. Yeah, he's a contractor, built the place I designed, but wanted nothing to do with it until then, leaving all the planning to me, since, he said, (and I quote): he is 'sick of seeing so many houses every day at work!'. So, when the time came to build our own, he did, in silence, for he was too busy banging nails into beams, and of course, biting his tongue!;)
I love all your pretty red flowers, they look lovely on the patio with the white and blue skies.. Your pool looks very refreshing, great for dip a hot summer day. Enjoy your weekend, Poppy!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed them all, but omg that last photo is drop dead gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
Your flowers seem none the worse for all that sizzling sunshine! The last photo is just beautiful, Poppy!ReplyDelete
Your photos are just amazing!ReplyDelete
You flowers are so pretty.
Good morning from Kentucky Poppy, and what a sweet one it is. I have been checking in on my blog world friends and I am being reminded over and over again, how blessed I am to know these precious people from around the world and touch into their lives just enough to feel love a sweet connection that seems so profound, I feel as though I could walk out the front door and there these scenes and you would be...just wonderful the way you share. Whew...ha ha just realized that was one long sentence ;)ReplyDelete
This chilly, rainy summer in Ontario means very little chance of flowers burning up. Your poetic walk through the garden and pool area is a welcome relief from thunderstorms!ReplyDelete
Lovely post, dear Poppy!!!!!ReplyDelete
I wish you a happy month of August!!!!!!!
One can almost feel the heat bouncing off the patio after reading your great words and seeing the gorgeous photos. Thank heavens you have a pool to take a dip in !ReplyDelete
Poppy, you're so clever! thank you for the fun poem and beautiful pictures.ReplyDelete
Such happy photos!ReplyDelete
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Though the rays of sun seem blinding, the blooms in your garden are still captivating. And that is one daredevil bee, bravely taking a dip in a deep blue sea. How wonderful to see your happy abode and everything that surrounds it. Have a good weekend dear friend.ReplyDelete
Just beautiful Poppy!! xxReplyDelete
Every July our Pacific Northwest island begins to look like a Greek isle! Like you, I am watering when I can, and staying out of the sun as much as possible. I do, however, soak up enough of that vitamin D to last me through our rainy winter!ReplyDelete
When I think of how warm and dry it is in Crete, I can't help but wonder about the Herculean effort it must take to keep your flowers looking so lovely and 'refreshed' all the time.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos Poppy, and I especially love the last one!
Wow how gorgeous your outdoor property is with the pretty flowers! The pool must be so nice too. Have a nice week Poppy and thanks for sharing with us all.ReplyDelete
Such a clever and cute post ~ thanks for sharing your lovely potted plants in such a poetic way (it made my day)... Couldn't resist the rhyme this time... Have a wonderful week ~ JES :)ReplyDelete
Poppy, I always feel so much better after a visit to your blog. Thanks for the lovely prose and the pics. Beautiful.ReplyDelete
Very fun and clever Poppy! I love the last photo of the pool reflection~ReplyDelete
Such gorgeous bloom! Most of the flowers there are so new to me that I have not even seen them in pictures :) Everything in these pictures is so perfect- the garden, water, sky, sunlight and your house!!ReplyDelete
Oh what pretty captures. I know what you mean about the heat. In Texas we get into triple digits.ReplyDelete
My Cowboy was so proud of himself the other afternoon. I made a comment one of my plants was looking droopy. I just thought it was past it's prime. He said maybe it was too close to the wall. I thought about it and realized he was right. Duh. He was so proud of himself! Thanks for sharing your beautys. I always enjoy my visit.
Have a great week.
I feel like I have been on vacation! What a beautiful place in which you live. Found you through the Tuesday Garden Party linkup. Now I have to look around some more! Ciao, SuzanneReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate hearing from all of you! Have a great day!


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Fruit & Fatty Liver
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis causes fat to build up in your liver. Too much fat building up in your liver can lead to cirrhosis, or permanent scarring, and eventual liver failure. Reducing stress on your liver and following a healthy lifestyle may help prevent the condition from developing into more serious conditions. A healthy diet for people with fatty liver disease can include most kinds of fruit.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, also known as NAFLD, typically affects older adults and males more than it does younger adults and females. This disease appears without symptoms, or you may feel tired or have pain in your abdomen, according to NYU Langone Medical Center. Treatment must address underlying causes and prevent your condition from advancing into more serious problems such as cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver, and liver failure. The American Liver Foundation suggests general dietary guidelines for fatty liver disease, which include vegetables, whole grains and fruits to increase your intake of dietary fiber, and reducing your intake of saturated fat. Saturated fat causes your liver to produce more cholesterol, which may place stress on your liver and exacerbate fatty liver disease.
Weight Control
High-risk factors for developing fatty liver and its complications include obesity, according to the University of Pittsburgh. In order to lose weight, you need to burn off more calories than you expend. Most kinds of fruit can help you reduce your overall calorie intake in order to lose weight. You can eat fruit as low-calorie snacks, additions to your breakfast cereal or substitutes for dessert. Keep in mind that fresh fruit contains fewer calories than dried fruit does.
Dietary Fiber
A healthy diet for fatty liver disease should include fruit, because of its high amount of dietary fiber. According to the University of Rochester Medical Center, high cholesterol, diabetes, prediabetes or high blood pressure can lead to fatty liver disease or complications from it. Fiber lowers your cholesterol levels, and it may help regulate your blood sugar levels to prevent or control type 2 diabetes. Oranges, bananas, pears, strawberries, apples and apricots provide good sources of fiber. Fruit juice generally does not contain fiber.
A diet low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat may lower your cholesterol levels and promote a healthy liver, according to an article by Drs. Dawn M. Torres and Stephen A. Harrison appearing in the May 2008 issue of "Gastroenterology." Most kinds of fruit contain little or no fat. Avocados, however, contain healthy monounsaturated fat, which may help regulate your blood sugar. As an added benefit, avocados contain high levels of fiber with 5 grams in a 1/2-cup serving, according to the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
- NYU Langone Medical Center: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- University of Rochester Medical Center: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- American Liver Foundation: Diet and Your Liver
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Florida Cooperative Extension Service
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, or commonly known as Jio, is one of the largest LTE mobile network provider based in India. However, there might be instances that you need to contact customer care. If you have any problems with your connection, your LTE service, or maybe your network as a whole, you can easily contact Jio customer care service. You contact customer care not only for network issues.
You might want to be updated about the recent promos and offers, and the easiest way to know the details is if you can talk to a Jio Customer Service Representative. More people in India are now swapping their network providers with Jio. The cheap postpaid plans and impressive internet services are some of the reasons for this change.
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. is one of the network providers in India who offers the best postpaid plans. Jio has reported an estimate of over 100 million users within the 6 months. During these times, questions and inquiries are often and most are done through the customer care hotline. Jio Tariff plans have free voice call service. Local calls, STD calls, incoming and outgoing roaming calls. These calls can be made to any network, anywhere in India. With Jio data services, you are promised to have 20% more data than other network providers.
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Contacting your network provider's customer care service can sometimes be challenging. However, for people who are busy, this is the only way that they can inquire about new promotions, or maybe state their concern about their plans or the service that they are getting from Reliance Jio. You don't need to worry about additional call charges since Jio already has a toll free number that you can use anytime, anywhere.


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The practice of genealogy, researching one's ancestors and family tree, has exploded lately. Ancestry.com has become a huge success, boasting millions of subscribers and a net worth well over half a billion dollars. Many, if not most, families in the US have at least one person actively researching the long-forgotten twists and turns of their family tree.
It's an understandable obsession, of course. The preoccupation with who we are and where we came from has plagued humanity since the dawn of civilization. We put up pictures of our great-great- grandparents, whom we never met and are long dead, and bore all of our houseguests with their stories.
But what does it all really mean?
Genealogical Surprises
Ancestry.com and other genealogy businesses have made a common practice of digging deep into the background of celebrities (something people are obsessed with even more than genealogy) as a…
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Israel's leading crime writer debuts in English
Line Up is an appropriate name for this crime thriller, as the narrative goes back and forth along a line-up of colorful, and very believable, characters.
Sarah Glazer, an 82-year-old grandmother who lives in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, has nothing better to do with her time than to use a recently purchased, and quite expensive, pair of binoculars to spy on her neighbors. There's this young man from down the street who walks his dog in the middle of the night. Sarah observes the man carefully, ready to make an official complaint if the man doesn't clean up after his dog's nocturnal messes. This time, she sees, the man bends down to collect the dog poo with a bag.
Sarah takes her medicine. After all, the doctor told her to space the pills six hours apart, and that is why she is awake at this ungodly hour. But then, something else brings her back to the window. She readjusts the night vision of her binoculars and spots a man and a woman, going at each other like animals. They are animals, she thinks, but she keeps her eyes glued to the scene.
Sarah Glazer doesn't realize it at the time, but she has just witnessed a brutal rape. The police are called in and hurry to solve the high-profile case. Detective Eli Nahum sees an easy conviction when he quickly arrests a likely suspect. Nahum pushes for the victim to positively identify the suspect in a line-up, but as the case becomes complicated due to legal technicalities, Nahum begins to doubt the suspect's guilt.
Line Up is an appropriate name for this crime novel, as the narrative goes back and forth along a line-up of colorful, and very believable, characters. The police officers, newspaper editors and reporters, the victim, the witnesses, the suspect's family and the Mafia-like crime organization which secretly employs him, all serve as pieces in a puzzle that didn't appear to be complicated at first glance.
As the case falls apart due to his mistakes, Nahum is fired from his position and the suspect goes free. But then another rape occurs. Who is guilty this time? The police are determined to send a man to prison, while the mob criminals seek to kill their former hired hand.
This fascinating crime thriller marks the English language debut of a leading Israeli crime writer. Liad Shoham is well known in the country; the prolific author's books have been appearing in Hebrew on bookshelves with a new release nearly every year since 2001. Previously profiled in a Times of Israel article in April, Shoham's latest book, Asylum City, again details a brutal crime in Tel Aviv and will make its appearance in English next year.
"It's the dream of any Israeli writer to be translated into English, and I wanted that as well," Shoham said in the Times of Israel article. "My publishers told me to first succeed in Israel, to become the crime writer, and that's what I did."
With the publication of Line Up, the Israeli crime writer makes a welcome debut on the international literary scene.
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THE IRA could have started their decommissioning process in Scotland, it emerged last night.
General John de Chastelain admitted he did not know where he was when he weighed explosives and handled guns and ammunition in front of a number of Provo representatives as part of the dramatic disarmament process at a secret hideout.
He told the Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, "I cannot tell you in what country it took place. It could either have been in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland or Scotland."
Details of the secret rendezvous emerged last night in documents released by the DUP and the Ulster Unionists which they claimed were transcripts of discussions with the general and his colleagues in the aftermath of the IRA decommissioning.
Gen de Chastelain has refused to release any facts of his meeting with the Provisionals. But he told the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, "I can tell you that we all handled the arms and weapons to check they were genuine, we counted them and the ammunition and we weighed the explosives."
According to the DUP's transcript, the general said the IRA's liaison with his commission joined him and his three colleagues while the arms cache was put beyond use.
The documents were released as a war of words erupted between the rival unionist parties on the significance of the IRA's arms gesture.


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Skip the takeout and make this simple recipe for dairy free garlic naan bread at home. It's a lot easier than you might think.
Nothing pairs better with Indian food than a yeasty, garlic naan bread. Rory Gilmore knows that well. And, she makes sure to order some when she orders Indian takeout while Lorelai is out of town. The funny thing is, she never actually gets that takeout. Her surprise visitors spoil her night alone, but I have just one question. Does the Indian food ever get delivered? Something to ponder.
Unfortunately for the us, so many contain dairy. Yogurt to be exact. It's what gives the naan its subtle, tangy flavor. It's hard to replicate, but it's doable. I substituted alt-milk and a bit of acid (lemon juice) to mimic the flavor. Then I followed the general directions for making naan bread.
The method for this dairy free garlic naan is fairly simple. You activate the yeast, add the rest of the ingredients and mix until a ball forms, and wait for it to rise, just like bread. Then you separate the dough into individual pieces that get cooked on the stove. The garlic is added as you cook, but you could skip that part if you want plain, fresh naan bread. Fairly simple, right? As long as you have the time, anyone can do it.
It's been a while since we made this recipe, but each time, it turns out great. I think last time we made it we were having kofta, but you can pretty much pair it with anything. It's especially good with curry dishes, and it's great for sopping up any extra sauce you might leave behind on your plate.
Dairy Free Garlic Naan Bread
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hours 30 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
For the dough:
- 1/2 cup warm water (ideally between 105˚F – 110˚F)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 (0.25-ounce) package active dry yeast
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup almond milk (or alternative milk of choice)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
For topping:
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- Coarse salt (optional, for garnish)
- Fresh parsley or cilantro (optional, for garnish)
- In a small bowl, gently stir together water, sugar and yeast. Allow it to activate until it is foamy on top.
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer (dough hook), add activated yeast, flour, and remaining ingredients. Beat with dough hook at medium speed until a ball has formed. Remove bowl from mixer and cover with a damp towel. Let sit in a warm place for about 1 hour.
- When dough has doubled in size, divide into eight small balls. Heat a skillet over medium high and stir together garlic and oil.
- Roll each ball to 1/4-inch thickness and place in hot pan, one at a time, brushing with garlic/oil mixture. When dough has started to bubble, flip to other side and brush again with oil. Sprinkle with coarse salt and herbs. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Calories: 0
- Sugar: 0 g
- Sodium: 0 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 0 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Recipe adapted from Half Baked Harvest.
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TranxenePronounced: TRAN-zeen
Generic name: Clorazepate dipotassium
Other brand names: Tranxene-SD, Tranxene-SD Half Strength
Why is this drug prescribed: Tranxene belongs to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines. It is used in the treatment of anxiety disorders and for short-term relief of the symptoms of anxiety. It is also used to relieve the symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal and to help in treating certain convulsive disorders such as epilepsy.
Most important fact about this drug: Tranxene can be habit-forming if taken regularly over a long period. You may experience withdrawal symptoms if you stop using this drug abruptly. Consult your doctor before discontinuing Tranxene or making any change in your dose.
How should you take this medication: Tranxene should be taken exactly as prescribed by your doctor. --If you miss a dose... Take it as soon as you remember if it is within an hour or so of your scheduled time. If you do not remember until later, skip the dose you missed and go back to your regular schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once. --Storage instructions... Store at room temperature. Protect from excessive heat.
What side effects may occur: Side effects cannot be anticipated. If any develop or change in intensity, inform your doctor as soon as possible. Only your doctor can determine if it is safe for you to continue taking Tranxene. More common side effects may include: Drowsiness Less common or rare side effects may include: Blurred vision, depression, difficulty in sleeping or falling asleep, dizziness, dry mouth, double vision, fatigue, genital and urinary tract disorders, headache, irritability, lack of muscle coordination, mental confusion, nervousness, tremors, skin rashes, slurred speech, stomach and intestinal disorders, tremor Side effects due to rapid decrease or abrupt withdrawal from Tranxene may include: Abdominal cramps, convulsions, diarrhea, difficulty in sleeping or falling asleep, hallucinations, impaired memory, irritability, muscle aches, nervousness, tremors, vomiting
Why should this drug not be prescribed: If you are sensitive to or have ever had an allergic reaction to Tranxene, you should not take this medication. Make sure your doctor is aware of any drug reactions you have experienced. Do not take this medication if you have the eye condition known as acute narrow-angle glaucoma. Anxiety or tension related to everyday stress usually does not require treatment with such a strong drug. Discuss your symptoms thoroughly with your doctor. Tranxene is not recommended for use in more serious conditions such as depression or severe psychological disorders.
Special warnings about this medication: Tranxene may cause you to become drowsy or less alert; therefore, you should not drive or operate dangerous machinery or participate in any hazardous activity that requires full mental alertness until you know how this drug affects you. If you are being treated for anxiety associated with depression, your doctor will have you take a low dose of this medication. Do not increase your dose without consulting your doctor. The elderly and people in a weakened condition are more apt to become unsteady or oversedated when taking Tranxene.
Possible food and drug interactions when taking this medication: Tranxene slows down the central nervous system and may intensify the effects of alcohol. Do not drink alcohol while taking this medication. If Tranxene is taken with certain other drugs, the effects of either could be increased, decreased, or altered. It is especially important to check with your doctor before combining Tranxene with the following: Antidepressant drugs known as MAO inhibitors (Nardil, Parnate) and other antidepressants such as Elavil and Prozac Barbiturates such as Nembutal and Seconal Narcotic pain relievers such as Demerol and Percodan Major tranquilizers such as Mellaril and Thorazine
Special information if you are pregnant or breastfeeding: The effects of Tranxene during pregnancy have not been adequately studied. However, because there is an increased risk of birth defects associated with this class of drug, its use during pregnancy should be avoided. Tranxene may appear in breast milk and could affect a nursing infant. If this medication is essential to your health, your doctor may advise you to discontinue breastfeeding until your treatment with this medication is finished.
Recommended dosage: ANXIETY Adults The usual daily dosage is 30 milligrams divided into several smaller doses. A normal daily dose can be as little as 15 milligrams. Your doctor may increase the dosage gradually to as much as 60 milligrams, according to your individual needs. Tranxene can also be taken in a single bedtime dose. The initial dose is 15 milligrams, but your doctor will adjust the dosage to suit your individual needs. Tranxene-SD, a 22.5-milligram tablet, and Tranxene-SD Half Strength, an 11.25-milligram tablet, can be taken once every 24 hours. Your doctor may switch you to this form of the drug after you have been taking Tranxene for several weeks. Older Adults The usual starting dose is 7.5 to 15 milligrams per day. ACUTE ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL Tranxene can be used in a multi-day program for relief of the symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal. Dosages are usually increased in the first 2 days from 30 to 90 milligrams and then reduced over the next 2 days to lower levels. After that, your doctor will gradually lower the dose still further, and will take you off the drug when you are ready. WHEN USED WITH ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS Tranxene can be used in conjunction with antiepileptic drugs. Follow the recommended dosages carefully to avoid drowsiness. Adults and Children over 12 Years Old The starting dose is 7.5 milligrams 3 times a day. Your doctor may increase the dosage by 7.5 milligrams per week to a maximum of 90 milligrams a day. Children 9 to 12 Years Old The starting dose is 7.5 milligrams twice a day. Your doctor may increase the dosage by 7.5 milligrams a week to a maximum of 60 milligrams a day. Safety and effectiveness in children under 9 years of age have not been established.
Overdosage: Any medication taken in excess can have serious consequences. If you suspect an overdose, seek medical treatment immediately. Symptoms of Tranxene overdose may include: Coma, low blood pressure, sedation


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The Lower School ICT Masterclass children had an enjoyable day this week when they were challenged to create an animation. After introducing the topic, the children looked at some short animation sequences before embarking on their own. They had to create their own backgrounds, using the variety of drawing shapes available on PowerPoint. Clip Art was banned! Once they had their simple backgrounds they could begin to create their creature. The children knew that the only limit on what they produced was their own imagination, so it was interesting to see their creations emerging! There were a lot of different techniques for them to remember, such as grouping and ungrouping as they created their slides. In the afternoon parents attended the workshop, where the children were able to teach their parents the skills they had learned to produce their own slide.
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Launched in November 2011.
This virtual fitting room is a combined Facebook App and inline page integrated into the OneStopPlus.com site.
Users create their model, dress up with 200 items from OneStopPlus brands, save their outfits to their closet, and share outfits with friends on Facebook to get the most votes. The month of November featured a prize of 250$ for the most popular outfit.
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No matter how much manufacturers reduce the direct emissions of individual vehicles, (and putting the ethical and practical absurdities of biofuel aside) there is still the small matter of replacing the entire planetary fleet of cars and building and servicing the infrastructure and maintaining the disconnected living arrangements that the car habit encourages -for an imminent NINE BILLION people . This monumentally destructive endevour cannot be hidden behind a handful of hybrids and a lot of empty promises.
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Update on Medicare Proposed TENS Coverage Decision for Chronic Low Back Pain Treatment
Press Release from APTA:
Update on Medicare Proposed TENS Coverage Decision for Chronic Low Back Pain Treatment
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will soon issue a final ruling on its National Coverage Analysis Proposed Decision Memo regarding transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic low back pain (CLBP) on June 11. Within the memo – issued on March 13, 2012 – CMS proposed to limit Medicare coverage of TENS for CLBP to patients who enroll in an approved prospective clinical study. The clinical study must address whether TENS provides a clinically meaningful reduction in pain, improvement in function, or reduction in other treatments or services. In addition, the study must adhere to specified standards of scientific integrity and relevance to the Medicare population. A summary of the proposed decision memo is available to APTA members on the Medicare Coverage Issues webpage under the "TENS" heading.
APTA submitted comments regarding the proposed decision on April 12, 2012, expressing its concern that this requirement to enroll in a clinical study is highly burdensome for the Medicare beneficiary and will severely limit patient access to medically necessary treatment utilized to improve overall function and health.
As the June 11 final decision date approaches, advocacy continues through Congressional and grassroots efforts outside of APTA. Congressional members, such as Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, have also weighed in on this coverage issue. For example, in a letter dated May 3, Congressman Issa wrote that "TENS has long been recognized by CMS as an effective treatment for Medicare beneficiaries with low back pain and its costs have long been covered by Medicare." Issa asked CMS to provide him with information explaining the rationale behind its decision.
Grassroots advocacy for TENS coverage is also taking place through a website petition hosted by DJO Global. Nearly 8,000 patients and clinicians have signed the petition protesting the proposed coverage decision.
For more information regarding APTA's advocacy efforts on this issue as well as the advocacy occurring outside of our association, please feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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There have been recently several nasty air accidents. Danger has returned to flying.
To me it has always been dangerous, although I was often unaware of it.
Through my uncle, who flew in a record-breaking Christmas airmail flight from Sydney, Australia, to London in 1932, Kingsford Smith, the pioneer Australian pilot, was going to land in a field next to our house to take us up. We laid out a T in white sheets to indicate wind direction but, being somewhat unreliable, he never turned up.
However, he was to fly us children (I was 7 years old) from Croydon Aerodrome in April 1932, but the tail skid on his aeroplane had broken. All was not lost. A friend of his flew us over London in a Klemm Bat, an early, low cantilever winged German aircraft. I wore my cap back to front to stop it being blown away by the slipstream, and held on for grim death, there being a rough seat and nothing to stop the passenger from rattling around or falling out.
Flying like that was never thought to be dangerous as we took off and landed on Croydon's very wet and muddy grass surface. Parked nearby were those lovely Handly Page biplane airliners with four engines with their four bladed propellers strung between the wings. They flew from Croydon to Paris, landing in any large field for repair if anything went wrong. Flying was very much in vogue, very modern, but by today's standards very primitive.
I loved aircraft, flying, and First World War tales of bravery in the air, and all that went with this new dimension to my life.
Allen Cobham's Flying Circus had come to Rye. I was taken to the field by my father. A short flip over the sea was 5/-, and with a loop included, 7/6 pence. I had the 7/6 pence worth. It was in an Avro Tutor biplane. And then I flew in a Gypsy Moth from Christchurch.
The 1939-1945 war came. I went to the USA as a refugee until old enough, in 1942, to return by convoy across the Atlantic to join the RAF.
Until there were training facilities available for my pilot training, I took a job first as a farm labourer and then as a prop-swinger at RAF Theale, near Reading.
The latter job was ideal for me. It consisted of starting Tiger Moth (DH 82) biplane engines by swinging the propeller.
I placed chocks in front of the wheels (Tigers had no brakes) and shouted "switches off, petrol on, throttle closed ". Then the prop was spun around a couple of times to fill the cylinders with a petrol mix and I would shout "contact", spin the propeller, and jump backwards as the engine started. The switches were positioned outside the fuselage so that prop-swingers could see them and know that they would be safe from being sliced up by the propeller when the switches "off". The chocks, on rope, would then be pulled clear and the aircraft would taxi to the take-off point.
There was no meteorology then, so an instructor would fly a Tiger up wind for a while to see what kind of weather was approaching the airfield and be safe for learners. As the second cockpit was usually empty, I was often taken along and given instruction on how to fly the aeroplane. Soon I was doing all the flying. It came naturally to me.
Sometimes other aeroplanes would land at Theale. So I was able to fly in other types of aircraft – like an Oxford, Anson (devils to start their two engines), Dominie and Auster.
The Auster was a small AOP (Air Observation Post), high wing spotter aircraft, flown by my brother-in-law. He was in the Army and flew Generals around battlefields.
For that kind of flying there were no rules like the ones we were being taught. So, by taking off cross-wind or in any direction he felt like, made him somewhat unpopular with those in charge of the airfield.
The slow Tiger Moth biplanes were safe. Even when I flew my first solo flight from a farmer's field at RAF Shellingford, no one seemed to crash and kill themselves.
As a trainee (U/T) pilot I was posted to Coastal Command's RAF Davidstow Moor in Cornwall, where 281 Squadron flew twin-engined Warwick aircraft. They had a specially moulded lifeboat slung beneath the fuselage.
For operational experience I was taken along on sorties over the Bay of Biscay to search for baled-out aircrew. Had we ever found any we would have dropped them the lifeboat beneath its six parachutes. Our chances of seeing anyone in the Bay of Biscay were pretty slim, despite our square method of search.
My job aboard, while others were looking down toward the waves, was to look out for German Focke-Wulf Condor aircraft. These flew from Brittany to attack convoys. They were massively armed with depth charges and cannon, and no match for our collection of Browning 303 machine guns. I did see one Condor before any of its aircrew saw us, so we escaped. I suppose that flying like that must be rated as being extremely dangerous, but one never thought of it at the time.
I probably flew there with my present picture framer's grandfather. But his logbook at the time we were together at Davidstow recorded student pilots like me as "passenger", and not by name. I suppose that had we been brought down by the Germans and lost our lives I would have been traced.
My 20 hours flying from Davidstow was, in fact, the only operational flying I did in the war. When I was awarded my wings in Oklahoma, the war in Europe was at an end.
But learning to fly in America was quite a different matter as far as air crashes and danger were concerned. I wrote off a lovely PT19 Cornell (not my fault I must add) and quite a few of our number crashed AT6 Harvards and were killed.
Those were pre-radar days of dead reckoning navigation when low cloud and fog were regular killers.
At that time I could not envisage civil airlines being successful. Wartime crashes and deaths had become commonplace. So, why would people willingly risk their lives to travel by air?
Then, post-war, such progress was made in the reliability of aircraft, engines and navigation, that flying became very much safer.
And now, once again, through circumstances that seem to be almost out of our control, flying can occasionally be very dangerous indeed.


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Through the Emphasis in Advanced Water Technologies, students are able to gain in-depth knowledge of water treatment methods and design of treatment processes.
Students who complete the requirements of the Emphasis in Advanced Water Technologies will be provided with a certificate of completion.
Eligibility: All MEng students in Chemical, Civil, and Materials Science and Engineering.
Course Requirements: Same as MEng requirements for the home department.
Civil Engineering: 10 courses, or 8-9 courses and 1 project.
Chemical Engineering: 10 courses, or 7 courses and 1 project.
Materials Science & Engineering: 10 courses, or 7 courses and 1 project.
2 Core Courses
- CHE 1150, Industrial Water Treatment
- At least one of the following (the other 2 can count as specialization courses):
- CIV 541, Environmental Biotechnology
- CIV 549, Groundwater Flow and Contamination
- CIV 550, Water Resources Engineering
- CHE 565, Aqueous Process Engineering
- CIV 1303, Water Resources Systems Modeling
- CIV 1308, Physical/Chemical Treatment Processes
- CIV 1311, Advanced and Sustainable Drinking Water Treatment
- CIV 1319, Chemistry and Analysis of Water and Waste
- CIV 1399, Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- CIV 1399, Treatment Wetlands
- CIV 1499, Fundamentals of Acid Mine Drainage
2 Specialization Courses
Pick from the following list, or from #2 above:
- CHE 1213, Corrosion
- CHE 1430, Hydrometallurgy Theory and Practice
- JCC 1313, Environmental Microbiology
- JNC 2503, Environmental Pathways
- MIE 1807, Principles of Measurements
- STA 1004, Introduction to Experimental Design
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May include courses not selected from above. Must comply with Departmental requirements.
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"What makes maitri (loving kindness to yourself) such a different approach is that we are not trying to solve a problem. We are not striving to make pain go away... In fact, we are giving up control altogether and letting concepts and ideals fall apart. -Pema Chödrön
Holding the space for yourself, allowing anything to arise...
Exploring what's there. Who you are.
Sometimes you may feel shocked, sometimes you may want to cover up and hide what you see or feel. Sometimes you may get lost in judgment, likes and dislikes, falling into harshness and self-invalidation.
If that's the case, focus on holding the space for yourself, an open space, always there, even in the darkest moments or most difficult dialogues with yourself.
In that open space learn to meet whatever arises with an open heart and a curious mind.
Not struggling against it, but observing and relaxing.
Feeling what's there to feel.
Allowing it to speak to you.
Being with instead of fighting against.
Right there in that open space you can practice maitri (loving kindness to yourself) holding what comes up without judgment or ignorance.
"Being able to accept and appreciate, being able to look closely, being able to open your mind-this is the core of maitri."
Find that open space and live your life from there, with loving kindness to yourself and others. It's the seed of transformation.
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What has been rumored for awhile now appears to be confirmed. The LA Times report Hayao Miyazaki is slated to appear at Comic Con 2009 to promote his newest film, Ponyo. Miyazaki's previous films that had made it to the big screens in the US, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, were both critically acclaimed but did poorly in the domestic box office, only taking in $10 million and $4.7 million respectively. Both have grossed over $200 million internationally.
It seems that Miyazaki is trying to combat this but not only appearing a major pop culture event, but also by casting many top names for the English adaptation. The voice talent features Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, Liam Nesson, Betty White, Lily Tomlin and Cloris Leachman. Will it be enough to make Ponyo a domestic hit after it has already grossed $182.1 million internationally?


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Sony Alpha 7 Digital Camera Body
The Sony Alpha 7 delivers all of the advantages of a 35 mm full frame image sensor and lens interchangeability in a truly compact body. The Sony A7 sports a 24-megapixel sensor into a beautifully crafted, robust magnesium alloy body and is the first compact system camera in the Sony E-mount range to feature a full-frame sensor.
The intuitive layout and ergonomic design makes composing your shots through the bright, high-resolution XGA OLED Tru-Finder or via the high-contrast 3.0†tilting LCD screen a breeze. The powerful BIONZ X image processor and responsive hybrid autofocus system ensure beautifully rendered, sharp and accurate results for both stills and Full HD videos, even in low light. The Sony Alpha A7 also supports Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity for wireless image transfer to a smartphone or tablet.
Key Features:
- Full-frame compact system camera
- 24.3-MP Exmor CMOS sensor
- BIONZ X processor
- Advanced Hybrid AF: phase-detect and contrast-detect AF
- XGA OLED Tru-Finder
- Dust/moisture-resistant magnesium alloy body
- Full HD (1920x1080 - 60p/25p) movie recording with audio level control and clean HDMI output
- 4K photo output and support for TRILUMINOS Display
- 3.0" tiltable LCD, 1.23million dots
- NFC and Wi-Fi
- 5 fps continuous shooting
- 30-1/8000sec. shutter speed range
- Ideal primary camera for enthusiasts seeking expert-level results and control
- Perfect second camera for professionals
- Takes Sony E-mount lenses


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