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By Jaime Nolan, 2014 Saving Grace Event Co-Chair
Ten years ago I was 25 weeks pregnant with my first child and had nothing but hopes and dreams for a future with my newborn. Little did I know what was going to happen within a matter of weeks and that my entire life would be turned upside down.
On the morning of February 20, 2004, I was finally feeling better after a week-long bout with a urinary tract infection, and I was looking forward to getting back on my feet. Later that evening, however, I developed a sudden and very severe headache, and within minutes I started vomiting. My husband and I thought it was just part of being pregnant, but since I was throwing up so much, we thought I should be examined to make sure the baby was okay. What happened over the next 48 hours changed my life forever. With doctors rushing around me, I was put on a magnesium sulfate drip and rushed by ambulance to another hospital that had a Level 3 NICU. My blood pressure skyrocketed, and I was in and out of consciousness. On Sunday, February 22, at 6:30 pm, I had an emergency C-section to deliver our baby girl at 26 weeks gestation. She weighed only one pound, eleven ounces. We named her Grace.
Grace was a fighter. She remained healthy in the NICU for eight days, while I fought for my life in ICU. Within a day of my release from the hospital, Grace developed an infection in the NICU and was simply too small to fight it off. She passed away on March 2, 2004, at the age of eight days, twelve hours and 35 minutes.
The next few days were surreal as I had to go through the motions of preparing to now bury my baby girl who wasn't even supposed to be born yet. All my hopes and dreams for the future were gone. I couldn't believe it. But on the morning of her funeral, I woke up and looked at her picture on my wall, and I suddenly knew with everything in me that the purpose of her life would not end with her death.
After a few months passed, I found the Preeclampsia Foundation online. It was a relatively young organization but the fact that I could connect with other women who had experienced my loss was life-saving for me. My husband and I agreed we wanted to host a fundraiser in Grace's memory to help raise money for the Foundation, so that other women could receive the education they need to help prevent a similar loss. With the help of friends and family, the inaugural Saving Grace - A Night of Hope benefit was held in Minneapolis in October 2005. We raised a net total of just over $50,000. We were thrilled.
Little did we know that the event would become one of the Foundation's signature events. Over the past nine years, Saving Grace - A Night of Hope has raised $1.2 million for education and awareness of preeclampsia. This year, 2014, marks ten years since Grace's birth, and will be the tenth annual Saving Grace - A Night of Hope gala.
As you are making plans to participate in and support the Promise Walk for PreeclampsiaTM this May, also make plans to join us on Friday, September 12, 2014, for the tenth annual Saving Grace - A Night of Hope. The benefit will return to Minneapolis to honor its origin. We will celebrate the many hundreds of thousands of lives impacted by the Foundation worldwide as a result of the money raised through the gala over the years. This truly will be a milestone for the Foundation and an amazing tribute to how one life, no matter how short, can impact so many others.
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What is organic gardening?
Well, essentially, it means gardening without the use of synthetic soil or pesticides, in a natural, balanced environment. A key component in this process is the soil itself. Healthy soil is super important, so adding compost and raw materials (i.e. grass clippings) is crucial. Adding composted, organic manure (preferably from animals that haven't been fed meat) is also a great way to make your soil as healthy as possible.
Why is organic gardening important?
Organic gardening has so many advantages! By participating in a chemical-free, pollution-free, healthier way of life you are contributing positively to your well-being, to the environment and to the world.
Healthy eating is an issue being taken on by communities of people who are rapidly becoming interested in putting healthier options on their table. Not only is chemical-free produce clearly better for you, but food that spends more time on the road before getting to your table has a better chance of losing some of its important nutrients along the way. As a final note, the overwhelming consensus of people with organic gardens is that the produce just tastes better! Organic gardening just makes sense, so if you haven't started yet, what are you waiting for?
Environmentally, organic gardening contributes to a balanced, healthy ecosystem, and the lack of pesticides means that there is no leeching occurring into neighbouring soil or drinking water. Picking your produce from your own garden means that you are not contributing to any of the pollution associated with transporting produce to your local grocery store, making your carbon footprint even smaller.
From a financial perspective, it's a tough call as to whether growing your own organic produce actually saves you money. With the start up costs, plants, seeds and any other necessary investment, the consensus seems to be that the savings really depends on your yield. That being said, the fact that it's money better spent, is not often debated. Though organic home-grown produce may turn out not to be a huge savings in the long run, you know it's fresh, local and healthy. It's hard to put a price on peace of mind.
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In the last line of the terminal some information are given concerning the account, Balance, Equity and also the Margin (see attached image).
My question is now, how the Margin value (that is shown) is calculated.
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'Justin' time for a 'Happy & prosperous New Year' *
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All wood Enterprise with decks and varnish removed. Replacement woodwork where necessary. This is a vintage boat that was well built and deserves a new lease of life!
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|I love making charts for my kindergarten classroom. This year I am focusing a lot on executive functioning skills and growth mindset strategies. I have gained so much insight and motivation for chart making from the resource Chart Chums. I am grateful for their generous sharing of their knowledge and creative ideas. I've never found anything that offers my kindergarten students the type of ownership and deeper understanding of important vocabulary and the skills they represent, as I have with the Chart Chum books and blog resources I have integrated into my practice.
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Wizard Pickles
Chuck Whelon's Wizard Pickles reminds me of why "Puzzle, Maze, and Seek & Find" books (is that a specific genre?) - like Where's Waldo are never on the shelf. The illustrations are so interesting and each centimeter of each page, demands ample time and reflection. And the pickle gnomes don't hurt the hype around this book either! Pickles and Gnomes happen to be on my list of 10 favorite things. So I'm impressed with this mash up.
While searching for an answer to my genre question, I learned that Where's Waldo is on some Banned Book Lists. Who knew? Here is the link http://bannedbooks.world.edu
Funny, the two years I was a elementary school librarian the Where's Waldo Collection had a waiting list the entire time.
This brain bending puzzle adventure offers readers and explorers opportunities for a shared experience with others. I love text that is meant to be enjoyed by a crowd! No matter what schema a reader brings to this book, each page will offer them an interaction. This style book respects the importance of engagement, such a vital part of comprehension and motivation. Critical thinking and problem solving challenges, is yet another reason to come back again and again.
The illustrations are wicked cool...full of interesting details, bright colors, and double spread full bleed action! I so appreciate the high interest narrative that Chuck has seamlessly woven in. All the brain games and challenges feel like an extra bonus, as there are endless options for searching and conversing about the art and content.
Please go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/
Be one of the first teachers or parents to own and share a copy of this with the children in your lives. Once you do, your cool factor will rise up, and you will no longer have to encourage reading for fun!
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Hey, Baby, Look!
Written by Kate Shannon Illustrated by Morgan Owens
This book offers ample opportunities for both interactions and transactions, between the reader, text, and illustrations. The repetitive lead organizes and announces each page, Hey, Baby, look!...then delivers, with the fluency of rhyme, sentence structure, and with diversity of conventions. This book offers questions, prompts, conversations, and places to pause and think. Each page give you a new reason to revisit this book. Ample samples of sorting, counting, texture, dimension, patterns, color, and science. I appreciate the content vocabulary words like points, float, fins. And the integration of challenges for the reader to find differences, think about their senses, and articulate understanding by answering questions like, "How many are sweet?" or "Which keep you warm?"
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Caco is a modern Portuguese tasca in London! And we like to do things the tasca way, from morning coffee to nightcap and everything in between.
Back in the days it was illegal to sell alcohol without food in Portugal, so dentinhos were introduced, small bites were served with every drink. Today the tradition still lives and we love it, so at Caco we celebrate it by continuing to honour it every night in our Bar.
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Solo Traveller…
Now-a-days it has become a trend to travel alone among Indians. Earlier I used to wonder looking at foreigners strolling in the street, park or at other tourist spots all alone; doesn't matter what gender they belong to! Here's why…
If I have got a second thought in my mind so as to get out of the homely environment for a time being living a hectic life juggling with family's hue & cue, definitely it can be a reason for my next freak out! But yeah, solo travelling is the panacea I need so as to pamper myself, get to know myself. And I bet you people, solo travel is the best way to feel the ambiance you're surrounded with. For this, one strong reason I would give is that I can experience everything without dealing with anyone else's prejudices or tastes.
I don't have to bother about my belongings, take care of someone's likes or dislikes. I can alter my plans whenever I wish to. I don't have to convince any friend or the travel partner for any plan. I don't need to be the part of any group or two. Another important as well as interesting aspect of moving out alone is self agenda; the changes we welcome knowingly or unknowingly. And this change, I tell you my dear friend is the essence of life. You can relate with me I guess. Aren't you???? See, suppose for next 10 years I'm going to speak same stuff with you, no alterations, no failures, without any win; you'll tag me "moronic creature".
Yeah… for me also like others out there, this thought was daunting at first. But, after getting set in the mode, the most important thing that I realized and cherish is self-discovery. Also, I'm more aware of surroundings as I get bound of being apprehensive of others when alone. Travelling alone is not just lolling on a beach alone, taking supper in 7-stars alone or visiting remote areas. For me it is all about travelling the road less traveled, sometimes to get lost, lost somewhere in the city, on the roads, with people, sucked in the thoughts, moving ahead knowing my flaws yet boosting and raising my spirit to get to the niche of my life.
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Jason_HeyHi, im using the latest rayshud and i wondered where i could find the option responsible for the background opacity in the main menu (im talking about the dark transparent panel in the background of the medal and the buttons). Would like to have it solid black but i didnt find anything that affected it. I already tried tinkering with some colors in the clientscheme_colors.res but to no avail.
The color is TransparentPanelBG in clientscheme_colors.res but i have no idea if its used in other parts of the hud or not so its probably better if you change it manually from MainMenuOverride.res
creeprootnevermind, fixed it. Another question I had was, how do I make my health show on the TargetID, rather than on top of the player?
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Company managers and executives will have to research the laws and customs of the host country so that they may modify and revise their employee manuals accordingly. Once that is accomplished, however, they will then need a native linguist to translate the document into the target language. That's when they come to The Word Point.
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Many a company has regretted using amateurs for their translation needs. Ultimately, they have to re-do documents and manuals that they already paid for once. This will never happen when The Word Point is used. We are aggressive in our search for qualified linguists who have experiential backgrounds in the sectors for which they translate. And we only employ those who can pass our rigorous screening process. When a client gets one of our translators, s/he has the very best in the industry.
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This will, some day, be the homepage of the arc4random(3) suite for non-MirBSD systems. The codes need to be rewritten anyway, and maybe unified with these for MirBSD. We currently have (these are CVSweb links and, as such, provide you with changelogs):
- mircvs://contrib/code/Snippets/arc4random.c (main supplementary file for non-MirBSD systems; suggested for use with mksh)
- mircvs://src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.c (code in MirBSD base, MirBSD specific)
- mircvs://contrib/hosted/tg/arc4rootdom.c (supplemental file providing arc4random_pushb(3) for Android and in FreeWRT assuming the executing user is root and can write to urandom(4)
- mircvs://contrib/hosted/tg/deb/klibc/arc4random.c (draft patch providing arc4random(3) API on top of linprocfs for klibc, using jrand48(3) instead of aRC4 as algorithm, for size reasons
There are also versioned downloads of the main arc4random.c file, for mksh(1) packagers' convenience. (Nowadays, mksh doesn't use it any longer, but others – BSD::arc4random, for example – do.)
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Debian package page for libbsd, which also provided arc4random(3) and friends


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Fish Passage
Physical structures that hinder or block the movement of migratory fish to their historic spawning grounds are one of the most important factors in the decline of American shad, brook trout and other fish species. Removing dams or installing fish lifts, ladders and other passageways can allow migratory fish to return to their spawning and nursery grounds and allow resident fish to move freely through streams.
- Read the Management Strategy (pdf)
- Download the 2020-2021 fish passage logic and action plan Work Plan (pdf)
Fish Passage
Continually increase available habitat to support sustainable migratory fish populations in Chesapeake Bay freshwater rivers and streams. By 2025, restore historical fish migratory routes by opening 1,000 additional stream miles, with restoration success indicated by the consistent presence of alewife, blueback herring, American shad, hickory shad, American eel and brook trout, to be monitored in accordance with available agency resources and collaboratively developed methods.
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The Q: Writers Offer 10 Clues to the DCnU - BATMAN Edition
[DCnU Revamp Index Page: ALL the News, Images, Interviews and Columns]While DC Comics has been releasing covers and creative teams for their upcoming relaunch, there haven't been many details about what actually happens in September's stories.
In the Batman family, we've been told that many of the themes that were introduced when the comics were revamped last November — including Batman Inc. — will continue into the relaunch.
But what will the stories be about?
We decided to ask.
In a new twist on our usual "The Q" feature, where we ask one question of several creators, Newsarama cornered some of the Batman writers to find what they could tell us about what's coming for the caped crusader — and the whole Bat-family in the DCnU.
We asked:
If you could give fans one (or more!) clue about what's coming in your corner of the Batman universe, what would you say?
What resulted is these 10 Clues about DCnU Batman:
#10 - From Batman writer Scott Snyder:
"Bruce feels he has been away too much over the past year and decides to reinvest in Gotham — both as a Wayne and as Batman. After all, a hero can never have too many bunkers."
#9 - From Birds of Prey writer Duane Swierczynski:
"This time, everyone is after the Birds of Prey — the bad guys, the cops, the mob, the CIA, the Yakuza... and even some good guys, as well."
#8 - From Batman writer Scott Snyder:
"An old friend will soon become Bruce's deadliest enemy."
#7 - From Catwoman writer Judd Winick:"When Catwoman is left with nothing, she finds herself turning to the same person again. And again. And again. And it's the wrong move each and every time."
#6 - From Batman writer Scott Snyder and Nightwing writer Kyle Higgins, clues about Gotham City itself:
"Gotham has a totem older than the bat, something dark and deadly.
"Dick belongs to Gotham...but not the way he thinks."
"There are clues about the ancient evil Bruce will face written into Gotham itself, carved into the architecture (look closely!). There is even a secret design underneath the streets of Gotham. The past, the present, the fate of the Bat family — what if it's all written in the stone walls of the city, the future — a future doomed, a future saved, a future told?"
#5 - From Batwing writer Judd Winick:
"In a nation still finding its feet after a 30-year war, Batwing is a new hero. Which is good... because someone is murdering all of the old ones."
#4 - From Batman writer Scott Snyder:
"The Waynes will be revealed as participants in a secret war — a war for the city's soul that has been raging for centuries. A Wayne found murdered in 1888, a warning hidden between the lines, written in his own hand — for Bruce."
#3 - From Nightwing writer Kyle Higgins:"Haley's Circus is not what we think it is."
#2 - From Batman writer Scott Snyder:
"What if there is a secret, unmarked 13th floor?"
#1 - From Detective Comics writer Tony Daniel:
"Batman wants a piece of the Joker's mind."Got a comment? There's lots of Newsarama conversation on FACEBOOK and TWITTER. More on the DCnU BATMAN Family
- SCOTT SNYDER: The DCnU BATMAN Relaunch Really Isn't
- JUDD WINICK Brings BATMAN, INC.'s BATWING To DCnU Solo Series
- JUDD WINICK Returns to Gotham for Sexy, Violent DCnU CATWOMAN
- KYLE HIGGINS: Dick's BAT-Time Makes For Better DCnU NIGHTWING
- Gail, Jill and Babs: A Conversation about BATGIRL & ORACLE
- SCOTT LOBDELL Goes for Redemption in DCnU RED HOOD & the OUTLAWS


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Motorsport teams like Aston Martin Racing can make more informed decisions – and win more races – using precise GPS data.
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When I think back of my little camping getaway to Antelope Canyon I think of the words epic, BUT not because of the canyons.
My friends Jessica and Mark had recently begun an incredible road trip. One RV, from Arizona to Alaska, with a two year old and a newborn pair of twins.
Good God.
They told me they were going to be stopping in Page, Arizona to check out Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend. So I went and joined them. I am from Arizona, but I had never been to either of these places. My dad told me once that I travel all over the world, but you don't even know your own backyard. And that statement rings so true to me. I don't. And still don't. So I'm making it a point to explore more of what is close to me, not 14 hour flights away.
It was an incredible weekend. I loved it. And loved having my dear friends to explore it with. Also, if you ever complain about a hike to me again, please remember that in the picture below you will see Mark and Jessica carrying twins and dealing with a two year old while canyon trekking.
At one point Jessica was breast feeding both twins and still chugging along. its one of my favorite pictures below actually, I call it the SUPERHERO shot.
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Cover to Cover Volume II: The Library of Eddie deAngelini. Collectors is spotlighted in this documentary series and Kristen and Eddie talk about what started and what makes the long running comic strip!
When it comes to being a comic collector, it's a way of life. Eddie talks about his journey from collecting comics to creating them. Eddie recants how came up with the concept of Collectors. He also shares his journey growing up a comic book fan.
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The first comic book I ever read was written by Stan Lee. As a kid in the 1970s, I knew no different. His name was on all of the coolest characters: Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Daredevil and The Hulk, to name only a few. In the late seventies, Pocket Books published a line of digest size paperbacks reprinting all of the early issues of Marvel's greatest characters. It was my first introduction to comics as well as the giants who created many of the most popular characters and stories: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Stan 'The Man' Lee. It was more than an introduction. It was an invitation into a world of heroes and villains, good and evil, and doing what's right even when it makes everything in your life go wrong. I took that invitation and haven't looked back.
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Pete's Basement Reviews Collectors Annual #4! Be sure to check out Pete and the Basement crew every week at www.petesbasement.com
Check me out! I'm featured on Bleeding Cool talking about everyone's favorite comic strip Collectors!!! Does this mean I've finally hit the big time? Does this mean Kristen will stop giving me the side eye every time I say something stupid? Does this mean you REALLY like me?!! Click Here to read the full interview!
While super in their own right, as evidenced by the long lines awaiting their signatures, the creators of Spawn, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Deadpool, Punisher, etc., weren't the real heroes of the Las Vegas Comic Con. Stan Lee was not even the man. That title went to a mild-mannered artist in a back booth, Eddie deAngelini. Read full article
Collector Eddie deAngelini from Los Angeles is the prime example of turning a hobby into a business venture. His commitment to comics for nearly his entire life has reaped more benefits that just fulfilling childhood wonderment.
Not convinced comics can be more than a hobby, pastime, or form of entertainment? Just visit his own webcomic strip or his business venture into the resuscitation of the famous Santa Monica shop Hi De Ho Comics in Santa Monica CA. Read full interview
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Jim, The Epson 1800 and 2400 are totally different models - the 2400 has gloss optimiser in the inks, while in the 800/1800 it comes in a seperate cartridge. The Epson 2400 shares features with the 4800, 7800 and 9800, and they all use the new Ultrachrome K3 inks. After using the 2400 for a month or so, I find it is a superb printer, with an extremely good Black & White mode (ABW) built in to the Epson driver, and for the first time since I started black & white printing I find that I am not messing around with dedicated monochrome inks or RIPs, and that is a great relief!!! Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India Jim Nichols wrote: > Brian, > > I am using an Epson Stylus Photo R800, which is the entry level > printer using the ink process common to the 1800 and 2400, and I am > really impressed with the results. A word of caution, though, about > papers. I started out with the same generic paper that I had used > with my older Epson printer, and found that, after the prints dried > for a few days, the ink layer began to shrink and crack. I switched > to Epson paper, and have had no more problems. > > There is an on-line source for ink refills at http://www.atlex.com > > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >


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US Pharm. 2010;35(3):38-41.
Have you ever entered your own vehicle and considered just what is inside of it? Is there anything that could get you in trouble if you were pulled over by the police for a traffic infraction? Are you sure about that? Before feeling safe, ask yourself, who recently drove your car? Was it your spouse, your teenage son or daughter, a friend, a valet parking attendant, or an employee making a delivery for your pharmacy? Do you know if any contraband might have been left inside? What follows are two cases showing how reckless behavior, or just plain bad luck, could end up causing more trouble than you could ever have imagined.
Case 1: An Unlucky Errand
A 26-year-old man, Steven, was living with his grandmother, Mamie, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He regularly used her car to run errands and did not own a vehicle himself. One day while riding together, the grandmother asked her grandson to stop at the pharmacy to pick up a refill of her medication. During this trip, Mamie noticed that she had five tablets left in the prescription vial and dumped the pills out into a cup holder in the center console of the car. She then handed the container to Steven so he could take it to the drugstore and obtain the refill. Steven and Mamie both testified that at the time of this occurrence, she never told her grandson what the medication was or what she was using it for and that he did not look at the prescription container to see the name of the medication. After they completed their other tasks, Steven dropped Mamie off at home and drove to the pharmacy.
While waiting for the prescription to be refilled, Steven bought himself something to drink. After picking up the medication, he went back to his grandmother's car and went to set his drink in the cup holder. Seeing the five pills that Mamie had left there earlier in the day, he removed them so they would not get wet and put them into a netted pocket on the outside of his backpack, which was sitting on the passenger seat. Apparently, he then forgot about them.
The next evening, again while he was driving Mamie's car around town with a friend (and with the backpack now in the back seat), a police officer pulled Steven over for failing to stop at a stop sign. As luck (or the absence thereof) would have it, the officer, while checking Steven's driver's license and registration, learned that his license had been suspended and that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest. The other passenger in the car with Steven at the time did not have a valid driver's license either. Accordingly, the police officer made arrangements to have the vehicle towed. Following standard procedures in these circumstances, the officer proceeded to inventory the contents of the vehicle. It was during this search that the five tablets in the backpack were discovered. Steven told the officer that they belonged to his grandmother and that he had intended to return them to her but had forgotten about them. He had possession of the tablets in his backpack for a total of about 30 hours.
The pills were identified as hydrocodone, and Steven was charged with a vehicular misdemeanor for driving on a suspended license and a felony count of possession of a controlled substance without legal authority. He did not post bail and spent the next 16 days in jail.
During a bench trial by the judge (without a jury), Steven testified as to the facts stated above. Mamie also appeared and explained that she had put the pills into the cup holder and also forgot about them when Steven handed her the prescription refill bag later in the evening. She told the judge that the pills were hers, that she did not intend to give them to Steven, that she regularly let Steven drive her car, and that he was driving it with her permission on the night he was stopped and apprehended. She also indicated that she had no recollection of telling Stephen what the medication was or what it contained. Her testimony indicated that she was not sure about the distinction between a prescription-only medication and a controlled substance or a narcotic and an opiate. For his part, Steven claimed he did not know what the pills in the cup holder were at the time, that he did not know they were a controlled substance, that he did not know the name of the medication, and that he did not pay any attention to the name of the drug on the prescription receipt when he picked up the refill for his grandmother. Curiously, the court record does not indicate whether Steven knew at the time of this incident that hydrocodone is a controlled substance. In hindsight, that seems like a relevant issue to whether he knowingly was in possession of a controlled substance without proper authority.
The judge found him guilty on both the felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license. Steven was sentenced to 180 days in prison, with credit for time served and the remaining time suspended.
Steven appealed his convictions. After all, who would want a criminal conviction for narcotics possession on his record, especially if he felt he had made an innocent mistake of nothing more than forgetfulness? As to the controlled substance possession charge, he argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. The Indiana Court of Appeals denied his appeal.1
The statute in question states that a person who knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance without authorization is guilty of a felony.2 There are stated exceptions that allow family members or others to pick up prescriptions for patients unable to do so for themselves. Specifically, a "recipient representative" is defined as "an individual to whom a controlled substance is dispensed if the recipient is unable to receive the controlled substance."3 Another provision defines an "ultimate user" as "a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the use of the person's household."4
This, claimed the defendant, creates a sort of "Good Samaritan" exclusion from criminal liability for those who are doing a favor for someone else. The problem with this argument is that there is no time limit inherent in the distinction of doing someone a favor or possessing the drugs for one's own use or benefit. One could assert he was holding the pills for a week, a month, or even a year and still suggest he was just doing an errand. The court dismissed this argument because the statute under consideration does not address how long someone can be in possession of a controlled substance without violating the law. In other words, possession is possession irrespective of the time that the drugs are held by one person for the putative benefit of another. The court also noted that Steven was not convicted because he did not return Mamie's prescription "quick enough"; he was convicted because the indisputable fact was that he was in possession of the drugs when he was caught.
The court used a very narrow interpretation of these provisions to uphold the conviction. It wrote that the grandson was not charged for having in his possession his grandmother's prescription and failing to give it to her. Rather, he was charged with being in possession of the five hydrocodone pills that his grandmother emptied from a pill bottle into the cup holder and that he later put into his backpack. Without any explanation as to how he knew the pills were hydrocodone or that hydrocodone is a controlled substance, the court summarily concluded that the evidence was sufficient to show he was knowingly in possession of a controlled substance.
Based only on the facts we are told in the Court of Appeals' opinion, Steven got the short shrift of justice. There was no obvious evidence that he knew he was in possession of a controlled substance. Rather, the evidence showed that he was caught in possession of five pills that turned out to be a controlled substance. Maybe that is splitting hairs, but it seems to be a significant distinction. Of course, we were not in the courtroom and have no way to judge the credibility of the testimony of Steven or Mamie. Maybe 26-year-old men in Indianapolis are presumed to know what hydrocodone is and that the drug is a controlled substance. Maybe Steven was going to use the pills himself, share them with the friend in the car that night, or try to sell them. A very unscientific search of Internet sites (search "street price of hydrocodone") reveals that each pill of hydrocodone sells for between $5 and $10—not much of a get-rich-quick scheme for a 26-year-old vehicleless man who lives with his grandmother. The only good thing to come out of this case it that Steven probably learned a very valuable lesson by taking his case up the justice system to the Indiana Court of Appeals—never leave drugs in your backpack. Hopefully, he learned not to drive on a suspended license as well.
Case 2: A Pharmacist's Loose Pills
A Michigan pharmacist was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, operating a vehicle while visibly impaired, and possession of a firearm while under the influence of intoxicants. The guilty verdict was upheld by the Michigan Court of Appeals.5
At approximately 2 am on a rainy night in the summer, the passenger-side front end of the Jeep driven by the pharmacist collided with the driver's-side back door of another car as it was going through an intersection on the border between Detroit and an adjacent suburb. The victim testified she was driving about 20 miles per hour (mph) because of the rain and dense fog when she entered the intersection with the right of way. She estimated the pharmacist's vehicle was traveling 45 to 50 mph. After the collision, the pharmacist exited his Jeep and approached the other driver, asking why she had stopped in the middle of the road. She responded that she had not stopped.
When the police arrived at the scene of the accident, one officer noticed alcohol on the pharmacist's breath. At no time during the investigation did he ever communicate to the police that he was a licensed pharmacist or that he owned his own pharmacy. The pharmacist denied that he had been drinking and said that he was just tired. Believing he may have been intoxicated by something other than alcohol, the police issued a citation for reckless driving and put him into a police car to arrange other transportation for him. While sitting in the back of the police car, the pharmacist told the officers that he had a concealed weapon permit and that there were two handguns in his vehicle. The police found one loaded gun in the center console of the front seat and another one in a locked safe under the passenger seat. While searching the center console an officer also found seven pills of different colors and shapes without any prescription or other vials to contain them.
The officer put the pills into evidence bags, returned to the police car, told the pharmacist about the pills they had found, and read him his "chemical rights." He refused to have his blood drawn. The officers obtained a warrant to have a blood sample taken, and the pharmacist was transported to a local hospital. The search of the vehicle and arrest of the pharmacist took place at approximately 2 am, and his blood was drawn at 6 am.
Two white pills were later identified as Tylenol #4. The other pills were carisoprodol (Soma), trazodone, sildenafil (Viagra), diazepam (Valium), and alprazolam (Xanax). A warrant was obtained to take a blood sample from the pharmacist. The blood sample revealed significant amounts of alcohol, alprazolam, diazepam, carisoprodol codeine, paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), lidocaine, and the codeine metabolite norcodeine in his system.
The pharmacist was charged with possession of a controlled substance (codeine) and possession of a firearm while under the influence of intoxicants.6,7 He was not charged with the illegal possession of diazepam, alprazolam, or any of the other drugs found in his vehicle or identified in his blood.
The pharmacist testified that he had worked at his pharmacy the day of the accident and that he had been home for about 5 hours without consuming any alcohol or medications. He left his home at 11 pm to go to a bachelor party at a strip club in Detroit and arrived about midnight. He denied taking any pills at the party but admitted to having two cups of punch laced with alcohol and a half bottle of beer. He left the party about 2 am and did not feel lightheaded or intoxicated. He also testified that when he saw the other car in the intersection he slammed on the brakes but began skidding until the collision occurred.
He claimed he had no idea how the pills got into his car. He postulated that a friend he drove to a kidney dialysis center might have put the pills into the center console. That friend admitted carrying Tylenol with codeine with him on occasion, but it was always in a labeled vial. He never carried or took diazepam or alprazolam. The pharmacist also noted that his vehicle was driven by several other people and was used to deliver prescriptions to patient homes.
An officer from the state police laboratory testified that she could tell from the blood sample and tests performed on the pills found in the vehicle that the pharmacist was under the influence of intoxicants at the time of the accident. The pharmacist argued that it was a procedural error to admit this expert testimony because it unfairly told the jury that he was guilty of the crimes charged. The trial court judge and the Michigan Court of Appeals disagreed.
The pharmacist was sentenced to 18 months of probation running concurrently on each count of his convictions. His appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court was denied, thereby letting his convictions stand.8
At the time of this writing, the online Michigan Board of Pharmacy license verification database did not indicate that there was an open or pending formal complaint or any disciplinary action taken against the pharmacist based on his criminal conviction of possession of a controlled substance.9 Knowingly possessing a controlled substance in Michigan without legal authority is a criminal felony for which a pharmacist's license can be sanctioned.10
Pharmacists are not above the law just because we carry licenses for controlled substances. Unlawful possession of these medications can result in criminal penalties as well as administrative discipline. As demonstrated by this case, trying to pass the buck to someone else you allow to use your vehicle will not be a very useful defense. As health care professionals, pharmacists are held to the highest standards of care. Feigned ignorance will not excuse responsibility or liability.
Both of these stories should serve as reminders to think about what might be in your vehicle before you get behind the wheel. Unintentional or forgotten possession of a controlled substance, once discovered by the authorities, will be treated seriously, with the very real possibility of criminal felony charges. Excuses as to how the drugs got into your car will generally not be considered a valid defense to the charges. Be aware, and take care before you drive.
1. Matheny v. Indiana, Slip Op No 49A02-0904-CR-358 (January 11, 2010), IN Ct App.
2. IN Code § 35-48-7(a).
3. IN Code § 35-48-7-7.
4. IN Code § 35-48-1-27.
5. Michigan v. Bacon, Slip Op No 282833 (May 21, 2009), 2009 Mich App Lexis 1116.
6. MCL§ 333.7403(2)(b)(ii).
7. MCL § 750.237(1)(a).
8. Michigan v. Bacon, 772 NW2d 690; 2009 Mich Lexis 2533.
9. Verify a license/registration. Michigan Department of Community Health. http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/
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A professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland was fascinated by the study because it shows a link between access to weed and lowered opioid hospitalizations.
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NBC News reports, Legalized Marijuana Could Help Curb the Opioid Epidemic, the study analyzed hospital records from 1997 through 2014 for 27 states, the data shows a decline in opioid use or deaths in states that allow medical marijuana.
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It is just past three in the morning and I am a few steps away from taking a final preoccupation to bed.
Do guilty pleasures phase out of our lives, finally become acceptable, OR ultimately dismissed as silly?
Or from years of Catholic brow-beating and shaming, does the Pleasure amass even more guilt? Is it more embarrassing, as you likely lied to yourself about such an inevitability? The wells of both guilt and embarrassment are surely bottomless
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Shalom, shalom. Forgive my whisper. Let me quickly tiptoe to the bedroom.
Damn. I did it again! He will once again be cross about my dawdling into the wee hours.


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Sitting on the side of her bed one Saturday morning (her body tense and rigid in contrast to her soft, worn white cotton nightgown and tattered blue chenille robe), Dellie braced for her grandchildren to come charging through the front door. At that moment Dellie decided that she was ready for her life to be over. With 67 years on her, she was just plain tired. She had endured the struggle a lot longer than either of her parents and older siblings had. So Dellie figured it was time, her death just a matter of fact that required a little advanced planning. There were plenty of pain pills she'd been prescribed for debilitating migraines that she could, woops, take too many of by mistake. Then "the rest is silence," as Hamlet said. Dellie had gotten that play off a book-trade cart and had never traded it back; Hamlet could get tiresome, she thought, but he had a couple of good points about death she'd committed to memory. Dellie wanted silence – peace and quiet – more than anything, more than life on earth, which was damn sure full of "slings and arrows," just like Hamlet said and just as she was certain this day was about to prove again.
Her weekdays consisted of housework, preparing to teach her Sunday school class (which was a cosmic joke because she no longer believed in anything, much less God), and baby-sitting her three grandkids, two snarly girls and one boy who at twelve was the oldest and worst-behaved of the trio. Robby, Dana, and Michelle were as wild as the Ozarks where six generations of Dellie's family had not so much lived as existed and tried to survive from one day to the next. The family members' collective experiences mirrored the landscape in northern Arkansas: rugged rocky terrain, rough high peaks and rushing rivers, heartbreak and loss lurking within the shadows of almost every steep valley. Poverty and danger ran through Dellie's family's blood; there seemed no way out of such a predetermined fate. No way out, that is, except for the quiet release that death would surely bring. Dellie had thought more and more about it during the long hours leading up to her moment of decision on that Saturday. She'd even gotten down a book of poems from a shelf of favorites she'd picked up from a flea market so she could have some books she didn't have to return to the library; in a whisper, she read a line from Dickinson: "Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Not Death – for who is He?" Dellie said to herself, "Huh. Death is a man. Well, that figures."
While Dellie sat on her bed staring out the window, the grandchildren invaded her modest modular home and outright refused to catch up on their homework, preferring instead to watch wrestling on TV, forage like wild elk for her secret stashes of junk food, and beg her for money to buy more junk food at the convenience store down the road. Moving slowly from the bed to the living room, Dellie asked the kids to do some simple chores to help out – even going so far as to put up a chore board by the TV – but they looked at her like she was crazy. Dellie started to believe them. She was crazy to have agreed to oversee these children while her son Dale was in Missouri for the day supposedly trying to find work. No telling where their mother was, though the last they'd heard she was working as a bank teller in Little Rock. She couldn't keep a job for long, though, so her whereabouts were anybody's guess.
Dellie finally decided she'd had enough, giving up on the Saturday chore list and retreating to her bedroom, still in her nightgown and robe at noon. She hoped the Jehovah's Witnesses wouldn't come by to see what a shape she was in. Even after closing her door she couldn't escape the constant motion, the loud sounds booming all around her: three kids shouting and fighting in the next room, the TV volume on full blast, the neighbors bickering, a chainsaw ripping through tree limbs in the distance, cars coming and going. Before she'd started thinking about ending it all, there were days when this disordered domestic life had almost made her want to return to the steady humming noise of the workplace where at least she'd be getting paid for her trouble.
The year before, Dellie retired from the Smithfield plant that, like many in the area, had since closed. At the time she was ready to be done with that boring chapter of her life, ready to move forward into something new and stimulating, but fear kept getting in the way. She asked herself once after a particularly contentious Bingo game at the church fellowship hall: "Dellie, what are you afraid of?" She knew the answer immediately: fear of disappointing people, mainly the church members, her son, her grandchildren, and most of all her dead parents who might be lingering in some in-between world and watching her every move. This obsessive thinking started when Dellie served her husband with divorce papers just after their 25th wedding anniversary; she felt relieved but conflicted because as the family rock, she had let everybody down. The marriage was over but the fear and echoes of failure and fragmentation remained.
Dellie's ex-husband Frank had long since remarried, but she'd gotten word recently that Frank's aunt Freddie (short for Freida) died of cancer up in Ohio and left a piece of property out by the lake – Freddie's Arkansas vacation home – to Dellie alone. Not to Frank and his new wife and family! The property and the small cabin were all Dellie's. She and Freddie had stayed good friends even after the divorce; they'd shared that love of reading, of books Frank thought were a waste of time, but the gift of the cabin was such a surprise. It was so quiet and still and perfect out there at the water's edge. But Dellie had the grandkids, her Sunday school class, various obligations and responsibilities. What could be done? She tried to accept her lot in life and wore her "Proud Grandma" t-shirts to Wal-Mart every week. She figured she'd sell the cabin. "How are you, honey?" her favorite check-out lady at Wal-Mart would ask her. "Oh, just fine," Dellie lied, smiling, hoping no one could see how close she was to giving up for good.
Lying down in her bed a little before 1:00 her thoughts moved from Freddie to Robby, her daredevil grandson, when she heard Robby take off on the four-wheeler that his dad had given him for his birthday. She was so tired that she didn't even care that Robby was riding it unsupervised, didn't make a move to call him back closer to the house. That shattering noise he made peeling out was the final straw, and she resolved to claim Freddie's cabin and not tell anyone where she'd be living from here on out. She could move over there when the kids were away on a youth group camping trip in two weeks' time. Maybe she'd leave a note, maybe not. The family was already torn apart so nothing more needed to be said.
Dellie could be free out there at the lake like Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, like Louise Mallard before her husband reappeared as if resurrected and Louise died of the "joy that kills." Frank always told her she read too much, thought too much, went to volunteer at the library too much. Maybe he was right. Dellie closed her eyes and tried to drown out the annoying sound of the neighbor's lawn mower rolling up and back, on and on, until she thought she might lose her mind. Then the dogs started barking. She pulled the curtains, curled up under the covers, and longed for peace.
About half an hour after Robby sped off on the four-wheeler, Dana and Michelle burst into Dellie's room, screaming and crying, red-faced. Dellie sat bolt upright in the bed and held the girls as they all slowly descended to the floor in a heap of horror and shock. Robby had crashed into a brick wall of the closed Smithfield plant (which is what Dellie felt like she'd been doing for years); he just hit it, hard, drove into it at top speed. The ambulance came but Robby had broken his neck and died on impact. Nothing to be done. The paramedics wouldn't let the girls get close to him. No one was able to tell Robby good-bye, say a prayer, or do anything to ease the boy's abrupt transition from chaotic life to the absolute and final stillness of death.
"Didn't you hear the sirens, Mamaw?" Dana wailed. "Didn't you hear us hollering for you?"
Dellie knew she would be haunted by these questions for the rest of her existence. After all the years she'd spent being the cautious and responsible one in the family, the caretaker, the rescuer, she had heard nothing when it really mattered because she wasn't alive enough to leave the relative safety of her bedroom, turn down the TV, ask the neighbors if they could mow another time, and quiet the barking dogs in the other neighbors' backyard. By the time the girls had shouted for help, Robby and Dellie were both already as good as dead.
Dellie held her granddaughters for a long time and reflected on the fact that there was only one thing left to do. Well, two things. She had to arrange Robby's funeral – who else was going to do it? – and then finalize her own death. The first task was fairly straight-forward; she called her son Dale to deliver the awful news, went to see old man Wiley down at Wiley and Sons Funeral Home, ordered flowers for the casket, wrote a short obituary for a short life. Like a mechanized thing, not a human being, she went through the motions of the service a few days later, comforted grieving loved ones as they filed in, and managed Dale's drunken sobbing by gesturing for the younger Mr. Wiley who took Dale to the Care Room at the funeral home.
Distant and removed as she was from the sadness of the proceedings, Dellie wondered what in the world people did in the Care Room. Sober up with coffee? Listen to one of the Wileys read from the Bible? Roll around on the floor? That got her to thinking – while the preacher was up at the front telling what a fine young man Robby had been – about her pain pills. She had them in her purse and could start swallowing them now. Hell, within the hour she could stumble into the Care Room, collapse, pass on to the great beyond, and people would think she'd died of grief alone, grief for her precious grandson. It would be like a Kate Chopin story but better for the absurdity of it. Old man Wiley could even use the same flowers for her casket that she'd ordered for Robby's. Efficiency had always been Dellie's middle name.
Just as Dellie reached into her purse to locate the pill bottle and started toward the bathroom with a cup of water, June Sizemore from Dellie's Sunday school class caught up to her. "Oh, Dellie," June said, black mascara running down her face. "What a awful tragedy. Oh, Lord, help them," June called to the ceiling. "Bless this sweet family."
"Thank you, June," Dellie said. "I need to check on – "
"Oh, sweet Jesus, help us, what would Freddie say if she was alive?" June flung her hands in the air, a sodden handkerchief flopping from one side to the other like a dead fish. "Freddie would make it all right, she'd know what to do."
As June zig-zagged off to find the head Deacon (had she gotten into whatever booze was being passed around outside in secret?), Dellie slipped into a dimly-lit chapel way down the hall from where Robby's service was still going on. She sat down on a pew, surrounded by sweet silence, and considered the truth of what June said. For sure Freddie had always made everything all right, no matter what. She was gone but Dellie remembered the last words Freddie had written to her on that wrinkled-up hospital notepaper.
Dellie, you'll know when to go to the cabin. It's yours when you're ready. Sit out on that front porch and breathe in the quiet and read. Don't you let nobody take that away from you. Not Frank, not your grandbabies, not nobody. That space is for you to LIVE in. And don't pay no attention to nobody who says you're a disappointment or don't deserve it or whatever you might be thinking about right now. You've earned it. I'll see you on the other side. Love, Freddie.
Dellie moved from the chapel pew to the bathroom and flushed her pain pills down the toilet. Great day in the morning, she hoped she hadn't clogged the thing or old man Wiley would have a fit. Then Dellie started to laugh a little. She knew she shouldn't be laughing at a time like this but the thought of old man Wiley – or better yet, his wife Beatrice J. Wiley – coming in there after the service to find the toilet plugged up with painkillers just tickled her to death.
Oh, Lord. It nearly tickled Dellie to death.


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The Brains Behind Mary's Burgers Give Us Their Ultimate Bar Playlist
Have you ever found yourself perched at the bar of a local haunt, covertly Shazaming every second track that starts blaring out over the stereo? If you've ever been to Mary's in Newtown, it's a near certainty you have (assuming you could jolt yourself out of the hearty food coma brought on by their trashcan bacon-filled cheeseburgers). Maybe you've even taken to pestering the bar staff about what's on their regular rotation. It's a question Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham cop a lot as the founders and head honchos of Mary's. So much so that they decided to put together their ultimate bar playlist, complete with expert drink pairings (why yes, Notorious B.I.G. does go impeccably well with cognac). It's at this point we'd like to issue a warning that the below may lead to incredibly raucous good times.
Radiohead – 'A Punch Up at a Wedding'
Believe it or not, Mary's doesn't play thrash metal at every moment. This is a fucking ace lunchtime jam. The base line and groove makes most shit things go away. Also good when feeling loved up towards the end of a night, it's a handy song to drunkenly fumble to.
Best Paired With: Scotch. Cheap, like a wedding…
Metallica – 'Master of Puppets'
MASTER!! MASTER!! This song will kick your arse before spitting in your face. The original metal gods, age shall not weary them…
Best Paired With: A can of VB. Fast.
Queens of the Stone Age – 'Song for the Dead'
This was the first song ever played at Mary's. Dave Grohl on the skins still proves he is one the greats. These guys play every night on our stereos, but this song is the standout killer even today. The last 30 seconds can cause minor strokes in the unprepared.
Best Paired With: Jack Daniels.
A$AP Ferg – 'Dump Dump'
When this tune comes on, the staff get a bit rowdy. The chorus is THE most sing-along-able yet totally inappropriate in the history of music. Give it a try.
Best Paired With: Dark 'n' Stormy.
Marmozets – 'Born Young and Free'
The lady who fronts this band makes my fucking hair stand on end. Dirty, old school rock'n'roll, they were our favourite discovery at Splendour in the Grass a few years ago. Grit your teeth and scream in a stranger's face. "We don't give a rip!!!"
Best Paired With: Warm gin.
Blur – 'To The End'
Sometimes it's about showing a little love and having a sing-along with your best mates. The words of this song became a favourite of ours after seeing them at Splendour in the Grass.
Best Paired With: A glass of Pinot. "Just to the brim thanks!"
Slaves – 'The Hunter'
A friend from Scotland sent Kenny this song after his daughter Hunter was born. We were just really happy it was a rockin', menacing tune that we could play at Mary's when we were having too much fun at the bar! The riff tiptoes around until it kicks off – you'll know when it kicks off.
Best Paired With: Cold yellow Chartreuse, double.
Deftones – 'Passenger'
A staff favourite at Mary's. You can literally see the "Fuck you!" faces appear when it comes on. It's a builder; the chorus is an explosion of angst and pleasure. Singing along at full pelt is permitted when this song plays.
Best Paired With: Really expensive red wine and understand that that in itself is pretty fucking rock'n'roll.
Nirvana – 'Scoff'
One of the reasons that Nirvana is one of the first bands you learn to play on guitar. It's piss easy to play and sounds mean as fuck! Kurt screams "Gimme back my alcohol" a lot in this song, something we can all relate to.
Best Paired With: A gin and tonic that has sat on the bar for 20 minutes, it's probably not even yours.
Notorious B.I.G. – 'Gimme The Loot'
A dirty '90s East Coast hip-hop bass line, one of the greatest rappers of all time over the top, it ain't shit by any stretch of the imagination. Turn it up, rap along if you know the words.
Best Paired With: Cognac, of course.


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Case Law: Joseph v Spiller, Are Nominal Damages Appropriate When the Court is Deceived? – Hugh Tomlinson QC13 11 2012
The libel case of Joseph v Spiller has been remarkable in a number of ways. It arose out of a publication on the defendants' website for 6 weeks in April and May 2007 and, again on a limited basis in 2008. The claim was issued in May 2008 and, after a trip to the Supreme Court, was eventually tried by Mr Justice Tugendhat on 15 to 18 October 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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Vineyard Vines T-shirt // Similar Pink Turtleneck Here & Here // Similar Beanie
It snowed this week and I couldn't be happier! I absolutely love the snow. So, when it started snowing early Tuesday morning, I got outside as fast as I could. It was much colder than I thought! So, I didn't stay out very long. ;)
As for my outfit, I put on as many layers as I possibly could! I know it doesn't look like it, but I have three pairs of pants on. Yes, three! Annnnnd, I have three sweaters on. My Vineyard Vines t-shirt is my favorite t-shirt I own. It is the softest shirt you will ever feel. As I have said before, Vineyard Vines t-shirts are great for those days when you want to look cute yet feel comfortable.
On a side note, these pictures make me realize that I am in need of a tan.....
Until next time,
Xoxo, Natalie


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Meet the growing team of specialists involved in Research and/or Conservation efforts focused on horses, asses, zebra, and the ecosystems on which they depend.
Without the commitment and passion of extraordinary people, the Wild Equus Organization projects would not succeed. We are grateful to their essential and relentless commitment to the study, protection, conservation and management of free-living equids the world over.
Meet the Wild Equus Network of Researchers!
Jose Luis Canelon
Catedra Caballo Criollo Venezolano.
Emeritus Professor. Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado
Research and characterization of the Venezuelan Creole Horse (VCH). The VCH is a breed in fact, so we are trying its recognition as a first Venezuelan Horse Breed.
I joined the WEN to be in touch with other persons who work with wild horses
Karen Dalke
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Karen is currently a Senior Lecturer of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in Green Bay, Wisconsin USA. The primary focus of my research has been on the mustang in the American west. Since legislation in 1971, the struggles over protecting the mustang on public lands, illuminates political, economic and environmental issues between humans and animals. I have published and presented papers on this issue in Australia, Finland, Greece, India, Netherlands and the United States.
Website: http://www.uwgb.edu/sociology/faculty/dalke.asp/
I currently completed a case study on mustangs and domestic horses using the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) ethogram for Free-Roaming Feral Horses This study examines behaviors of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustangs and domestic horses. Over 26,000 behavioral images were analyzed and sorted into 15 categories. Continuous focal sampling at one-minute intervals captured behaviors for six equids over a one-month period in the summer of 2013.
Dalke, K. and Hutchison, R. (in press 2016). Thrill killing in Wisconsin. Contemporary Justice Review Vol. 2.
Dalke, K and Wels, H. (forthcoming 2016). Ethnographic research in a changing cultural landscape. In J. Nyman and N. Schuurman (Eds.), Affect, space and animals. New York: Routledge.
Dalke, K. (2014). Adopting a mustang through an anthropological lens: Exploring cultural concepts across species. Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 3, http://bcjms.bhattercollege.ac.in/adopting-a-mustang/
Dalke, K. (2012). Minding Equines. International Society For Environmental Ethics Newsletter Vol. 23 (3), 35.
Dalke, K. (2012). Review of the book Spanish mustangs in the great American west: Return of the horse, by J.S. Hockensmith. Great Plains Research (Vol. 22, p. 207). Hanover, PA: The Sheridan Press.
Craig Downer
Andean Tapir Fund
Wildlife Ecologist, specialized in wild Perissodactyl including endangered Mountain/Andean Tapir and wild horses of western North America. Author of scientific and popular publications on the above as well as cocreator of films. Member IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group. Interested in joining Wild Equid Specialist Group as well. Activist for wild horses and burros especially in western North America but in other regions as well. Author of book The Wild Horse Conspiracy
Website: http://andeantapirfund.com
Website2: https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org
Telané Greyling
Namibia Wild Horses Foundation
Namibia population Demographics and behaviour
Website: http://www.wild-horses-namibia.com/
WEN would be an ideal platform for scientists and the public to share information and be a voice and support structure for any specific population that needs protection at some stage, therefore contributing to conservation of wild and feral equids worldwide.
Sarah King
Colorado State University
IUCN Equid Specialist Group
Previous work on the behavioral ecology of Przewalski's horses. Currently I am collaborating with USGS to research the demography, behavior and ecology of feral horses and burros in the American west. I am also the Coordinator of the Equid Red List Authority for the IUCN, working with other experts to conduct IUCN Red List assessments of equid species. .
While there are equids on every continent except Antarctica there are surprisingly few equid researchers. Studying the behavior and ecology of equids can help not just conserve and aid management of these species, but also provide knowledge that can help others.
Laura Lagos
University of Santiago de Compostela.
I study the ecology of the Galician wild ponies: their reproduction ecology, spatial and habitat use, demographics, and I have been specially focused on the study of ponies' predation by wolves. I´m interested in the management of the free ranging populations of horses, their ecological role in the landscapes, the ecosystem values they provide and the function of the traditional/autoctonous breeds to conserve certain cultural landscapes.
I never get tired of learning more and more about horses. Every trip to the field is an exciting event, you always learn new stuff and have the opportunities to watch new situations.
Sharing knowledge with other horse researchers from around the world is stimulating, and putting together ideas, projects and dreams is essential to do research and to better learn about nature. This network can be the essential platform for that.
Jason Ransom
Colorado State University
Please see website http://www.jiransom.com
Equids are some of the most interesting, charismatic, and emotionally complex animals on the planet, and we owe nearly all of modern civilization to their contributions….and yet, we still don't understand them. Many of the wild equid species are beginning to disappear forever. Domestic species are too often not provided for in ways that meet their deepest social needs. Now, more than anytime in our history, we need to take notice and act with more applied science, aggressive conservation, and compassion. An active network of people from all walks of life that care about equids is a good step forward and I'm happy to contribute however I can.
Alberto Scorolli
Universidad Nacional del Sur, GEKKO Study Group on Conservation and Management.
Feral horse demography, social organization, body condition. Feral horse management in natural protected areas. Long term demography and population models. Body condition as a population management tool.
Website: http://caballoscimarrones.blogspot.com.ar/
I think Wild Equus Network will help because there are no networks currently reviewing this important topic. In my opinion networking and information sharing are very interesting avenues for the advance of knowledge and action!!
Pieter Wit
Chair IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and Counsellor of IUCN; Member of Wild Equid Specialist Group of SSC-IUCN; Member of the Board of Hustai National Park Trust; Member of the Board of Foundation Reserves Przewalski Horse
Reintroduction of the Przewalski Horse (Takhi); Hustai National Park, Mongolia
Website: www.treemail.nl/takh
Even though the Reintroduction of the Takhi in the Hustai National Park is a well-published success, we have to stay alert for several reasons:
- Politics may change in Mongolia and people that are more governed by greed than by knowledge of good ecosystem management may want to take over the park;
- Disasters may decimate the population such as occurred in Takhin Tal
- There are still many open questions and lessons to be learned and shared
- Attention may shift to other issues as many people have a tendency to think that things are settled once they are declared a success, not realising that continuous attention is needed to make the success sustainable
Many, if not most, wild equids are in urgent need of protection with the Somali Wild Ass as a sad "highlight".
Victor Ros
Wild Equus Organization.
Social behaviour of Equus caballus, with a focus on equine culture.Pottoka Piornal Project. Equus Ethogram Project
Website: https://wildequus.org/
The WEN was developed to coordinate and facilitate the efforts of like minded people, towards the common goal of studying, protecting, managing and sustainably conserving wild and free living equids around the world.
Anne-Camille Souris
Association GOVIIN KHULAN.
Since 2004, I study behavioral ecology of the Mongolian khulan (Mongolian wild donkey). In 2007, I founded a non-profit organization, the Association GOVIIN KHULAN, which aims to enhance protection of the endangered Mongolian khulan and its habitat in partnership with local protected areas' staff and local community of the eastern part of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). In 2007, I also joined the SSC/IUCN Equid Specialist Group.
Website: http://www.goviinkhulan.com/
I joined the WEN because I believe that such platform is very important to share information and raise international awareness to help enhance conservation of wild Equids worldwide!
Lesley Hawson
Melbourne Polytechnic
Imagine a world where there is not a truly wild horse running somewhere? For most horse lovers this is unthinkable.The Wild Equus Network works to protect our wild horse remnant populations in this age of the anthropocene. By creating a network of scientists and enthusiasts we can work together to ensure our wild equids are there to study and preserve for the generations to come. Protecting remnant wild horse populations is also like a seed bank (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault) where the rigours of natural selection protect equine genetics from the potential human driven selection problems our domesticated horses face.
I look forward to studying our wild horse populations so that we can understand the needs of Equus. I welcome the opportunity to add my veterinary and equine behaviourist skills to this cause.!
Andrea Harvey
Centre for Compassionate Conservation
School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Registered Veterinary Specialist
PhD on wild horse ecology and immunocontraception.
Join the Wild Equus Network!