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NEW GLOUCESTER, MAINE – The sun shone on the second day of the Downeast Cyclocross Weekend, changing the nature of the course for the Elite racers during the fourth Verge New England Cyclocross Series race of 2012. While the racers earlier in the day faced slick mud at every turn, the course had dried significantly by the afternoon. Spectators enjoyed the sunshine, basking in its glow at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine as they enjoyed beverages in the beer garden and treats from the food vendors on site.
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A wild card in today's Elite Men's race stole the show, as Maine's own Adam Craig (Giant-Rabobank), professional mountain bike racer, swept through the field from a back row start to a thirty-second lead on his nearest competitors. Initially, a lead group including Jeremy Durrin (JAM Fund/NCC/Vittoria), Justin Lindine (Redline), Dylan McNicholas (Cyclocrossworld.com), Raphael Gagne (Rocky Mountain Factory), and Jeremy Martin (Rocky Mountain Factory) broke from the front of the field, but Craig went right through them. Durrin and Lindine chased hard for the remainder of the race, staying together right up until the last go through the challenging woods section, when Durrin launched an attack that Lindine couldn't match. Craig wheelied through the finish line, showing off those mountain biking skills, as Durrin narrowly took second over Lindine.
The champions in all categories will be clear in a few weeks' time, at the close of the Verge New England Cyclocross Series. Rounds 5 and 6 will be held November 24 and 25 at Bay State Cyclocross in Sterling, Massachusetts on a classic New England cyclocross course developed by Tom Stevens. There, series leaders will arrive to battle for the final series points and final placings.
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2 Jeremy Durrin JAM Fund / NCC / Vittoria 0:00:25
3 Justin Lindine Redline 0:00:25
4 Jeremy Martin Rocky Mountain Bicycles Factory tea 0:01:32
5 Shawn Milne CyclocrossWorld.Com 0:01:50
6 Andrew L'esperance Norco Factory Team 0:02:32
7 Michael Garrigan Stage-Race/Blacksmith cycle 0:02:32
8 Anthony Clark JAM Fund / NCC / Vittoria 0:03:04
9 Mitch Bailey Trek Canada 0:03:20
10 Jesse Keough www.keoughcyclocross.com 0:03:20
11 Christian Favata RGM WATCHES - RICHARD SACHS 0:04:13
12 Thomas Sampson JAM Fund / NCC / Vittoria 0:04:45
13 Daniel Chabanov RGM WATCHES - RICHARD SACHS 0:05:28
14 Mark Mccormack Clif Bar/Pactimo 0:05:54
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16 Benjamin Padilla 0:06:56
17 Jean-philippe Thibault-roberge Trek-Bontrager 0:07:13
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Dir/scr: Ted Koland. US. 2012. 89mins
Despite having minimal screen time, the engagingly bearish Tyler Labine makes a strikingly memorable impact in Ted Koland's Lumpy, as the life-and-soul of the party best man at wedding of Scott and Kristin (Justin Long and Jess Weixler) whose death on the wedding night sparks a journey to find out what was really happening in Lumpy's life.
Tyler Labine is a genial and enjoyable presence.
A drama with some nice comedic moments, Koeland's feature debut might be modest in structure, script and directorial style, but the casting of Justin Long and indie actress Jess Weixler will help sales potential, along with casting of the likes of Frances O'Connor and Shelley Long. But the energetic Tyler Labine (who starred in Tucker and Dale vs Evil) is the dominant presence. The leaden title barely helps in terms of promotion.
After drunkenly flailing around at the Arizona wedding reception, Lumpy (Labine) smashes to the floor in his hotel room (after bouncing on his bed to a rock channel on TV). He wakes with his head bloody, stumbles outside and ends up dying in amongst the cactuses.
To his new wife's deep annoyance, Scott decides he must use the honeymoon money to arrange his his friend's Minneapolis funeral, but they set out to tell Lumpy's friends (Kristen points out there are only six numbers in his phone and two of those are pizza delivery companies), but come to realise they know little about him.
Especially when they meet Ramsey (Addison Timlin), a 15 year-old girl in a troubled home, whose oddly tender relationship with Lumpy is revealed in flashback. She saves him from a frozen lake, but their relationship is misunderstood by locals. When Scott and Kristin track her down it turns out that to her she was not a drunken oaf but actually a gentle man who offered her friendship.
It turns out she knows him far better than Scott, and he gets increasingly upset when he begins to realise this 15 year-old girl knew his oldest friend far better than he did. The revelation that his friend was more than a boisterous drunk and wanted to take responsibility for his new friend ends up being rather tender and moving.
Tyler Labine is a genial and enjoyable presence, and with Justin Long nicely underplaying he is the genial heart of the film. The film premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival.
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Producers: David Abbitt, Sharyn Steele, Jen Roskind
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Cinematography: Seamus Tierney
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One important Jewish concept is that the deeds of the ancestors are a portent to the descendents. This concept isn't just about learning morals from Torah stories the way we read Aesop's fables. Rather, the actions of our forefathers created spiritual realities that ripple through time. These ripples manifest themselves today.
How is this concept manifest in current events in the Holy Land? Where does the Torah portend that reporters frequently promote a distorted, imbalanced view of the Arab-Israel conflict? When media headlines trumpet the Israeli"massacre in Jenin," what spiritual ripple might this have emanated from?
The kernel of the media bias we see today is reflected in the report of the spies.
The kernel of the media bias we see today is reflected in the report of the spies.
As described in Numbers (chapters 13-14), the Jewish people left Mount Sinai poised to enter the Holy Land. God permitted Moses to send 12 spies -- one prince from each tribe -- to scout the land and report back.
When the spies returned, they gave a negative report, saying that the land was "unconquerable." This demoralized the people, and in turn led to national hysteria. Two of the spies, Caleb and Joshua, unsuccessfully tried to sway the people back.
As punishment for believing the report, God condemned the nation to wander and die in the wilderness. A new generation would enter the land 40 years later.
Violations of Objectivity
On one hand, there is no comparing he spies to the media of today. The spies were among the greatest Jewish leaders, and they made a very subtle error. On some unconscious level, they feared that entering the land would lead to their demotion as tribal leaders.
On the other hand, we can use the example of the spies' report to see a subtle lack of objectivity. Let's examine this in light of seven common violations of media objectivity.
- Misleading definitions and terminology can inject bias into a report by implying an accepted"fact." The spies told the people,"We were like grasshoppers in our eyes..." (Numbers 13:33). It's one thing for a person to describe himself as simply small, but the spies deliberately used the comparison of grasshoppers. This was intended to create a negative association that, objectively, did not exist.
- Imbalanced reporting presents only one side of the story to create a negative effect. The spies told the people,"Amalek dwells in the area of the south, the Hittite, the Jebusite and the Emorite dwell on the mountain; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea..." (Numbers 13:29). Listing off the individual Canaanite nations, rather than describing them collectively by the generic term"Canaanites" created a sense of fear among the Jews. Further, Amalek needed no mention since their land wasn't part of Israel anyway.
The spies made no mention of Jewish holy sites that would have surely aroused a desire to enter the land.
- 3. Selective omission allows reporters to control what information is made available and what isn't. The spies made no mention is made of Jewish holy sites that would have surely aroused a desire to enter the land -- such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Mount Moriah, Beth El and Rachel's Tomb.
- Using true facts to draw false conclusions. The commentaries explain that God helped the spies escape notice by causing many Canaanites to die. They were too busy with funerals to pay attention to spies. Yet the spies drew the wrong conclusion and told the Jewish people,"The land devours its inhabitants." (Rashi - Numbers 13:32)
Further, the spies note that the cities are"fortified," hoping to create the image of large, fearful militaries. But as the Talmud notes, fortified cities actually prove the opposite, since the weaker a community is, the more fortification it requires.
- Distorting facts. The spies brought back large fruit to"prove" how bizarre and dangerously powerful the land is (Rashi - Numbers 13:23). The fruit of the land wasn't bizarre, rather miraculously special.
- Lack of context. The Land of Israel was already promised by God to the Jewish people. God reiterated this point to Moses before permitting the mission (13:2), but the spies made it sound as if a successful conquest depended on practical factors.
- Opinions disguised as news. The spies told the nation,"The people are powerful" (13:28), and shortly afterward said,"We cannot ascend... it is too strong for us" (13:31). These were not factual statements, but opinions clearly beyond the scope of their mission.
The people knew all this; anyone could've refuted the spies. The Jewish women, for example, rejected the report and entered the land with the next generation. What does this say about the way we relate to bias today?
Biblical Hasbara
The Torah notes what might be the first Jewish "hasbara" (public relations) effort, as Joshua and Caleb tried to sway the people against believing the report. They said:
The land that we passed through to spy it out -- the land is very very good. If God desires us, He will bring us to this land and give it to us, a land that flows of milk and honey. But do not rebel against God. You should not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has departed from them; God is with us. Do not fear them. (Numbers 14:7-9)
It's possible that Joshua and Caleb's spin control addressed the specific issues of giants, fortified cities, funerals, bizarre looking fruit, holy sites and Canaanite geography without the benefit of PowerPoint presentations, glossy info packets and full-page ads. But the Torah doesn't note any point-by-point refutations. Quibbling over the details is a distraction from the bigger point: God promised us the land. And with God's help, anything is possible.
Today, the consequences of biased reporting are surprisingly similar, as many Jews fear coming to Israel.
This first case of biased reporting, even a subtle error by these great men, led to severe consequences: 40 years of wandering, and an entire generation that failed to enter the land. Beyond that, this day of "crying for nothing" set spiritual realities into motion. On the same calendar day, the Ninth of Av, great tragedies would befall the Jewish people -- including the destruction of the First and Second Temples, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand which sparked World War One and massive slaughter in its wake.
Today, the consequences of biased reporting are surprisingly similar. Many Jews fear coming to Israel. Other Jews don't want to be associated with an Israel they perceive as checkpoints and incursions. And the constant barrage of headlines is wearing out others who do speak up for Israel at the office or school. Surely, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe is linked to the more overtly biased coverage.
In reporting the conflict today, the media has its own reasons. It could be a desire to help the underdog, or a result of Arab intimidation, or in some cases even latent anti-Semitism.
If reporters would challenge their beliefs, they might find Palestinian claims untenable. But the truth isn't always popular, and breaking ranks isn't easy. Once we have a pre-conceived idea about something, it becomes difficult to objectively evaluate our beliefs and ask: Is this piece of information true? How do I know its true?
In the meantime, we'll be on the alert for bias reports from the holy land.


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Aldridge announced his resignation in March following allegations that his donations to the Labour party had been rewarded with contracts for business with the government. He said at the time that the allegations were "spurious".
In his last chairman's statement today, Aldridge noted new contract wins with Birmingham, Rossendale and Westminster councils, the Northern Ireland Civil Service, the DTI and the BBC. Private sector wins included DSG Plc and Fujitsu.
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Aldridge noted that despite the capital outlay required to get all this new business off the ground, Capita had still managed to post a 12.2 per cent increase in operating margins during the six months to 30 June 2006. Operating profit was up 27 per cent to £103.2m.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
Doctors' use of social media - some thoughts prior to publication of GMC guidance
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Thx for overview.ReplyDelete
I am irritated that yet another aspect of my life is being scrutinised because of overly cautious regulatory body.
It is my view that social media democratises knowledge so threatening the monopoly of knowledge which has been a pillar of how a profession defines itself.
Guidance for doctors engagement with social media is not about patient rights. It is a battle to control information. Why else do we see guidance on this topic being published almost simultaneously by professional bodies world wide?
The crusty and conservative "elites" who run the country cannot countenance the bypass of traditional top down information flow. At least that is why I think there is a rush to control doctors (and other HCPs) use of social media.
Sadly there seems no urgency by GMC to improve digital literacy of medical students despite the advances in mobile devices. Nor directives for undergraduate curriculum to include education and training in clinical coding. This
Digital literacy is an integral part for getting UK out of the economic mess we are in. A pity GMC is not interested in helping the economy as much as it is hobbling the medical profession.
Hi David,ReplyDelete
Have you read the guidance? What did you think suggested scrutiny? To be honest it seems very uncontroversial to me.
Please share what your issues are if you feel comfortable doing that.
And what do you think about the points I made here?
Anne MarieReplyDelete
The GMC or its agents will gain permission yto monitor all social media if the guidance is ratified. I am not comfortable permitting this intrusion.
The advice seems patronising and shows how out of touch the GMC is with people like you and me. There is no need for this document. Good Medical Practice the, and confidentiality guidance are sufficient.
Meanwhile your short essay is a mature and non-judgemental assessment which deserves to be read by all medical students!Replies
First of all thanks for your kind comments on my piece. I'm not paying you, am I? ;)Delete
Next, I don't see why you think social media will be monitored. Is every letter you send to a paper monitored? Is every telephone call you make monitored? Are all your letters monitored? Are all your face to face interactions monitored?
I don't actually think that the guidance is patronising. Above I have raised the question of moral panic. But I wrote this before I had seen the guidance. Reading it I can see no evidence that there is any moral panic. My understanding is that some people asked for this guidance to be produced. I did not! But I do not think that there is any harm in the fact that it not exists.
So far there has not been very much discussion of it anywhere. That suggests to me that it is quite innocuous but I may be wrong!
Thanks again.
Lessons from history suggest the most innocuous guidance/regulations can have the most disastrous effects. We ought to be asking why GMC is minded to make guidance on social media while ignoring Digital Literacy.ReplyDelete
This is why I worry.
Our letters etc can be used as evidence of professional trouble at any time if asked for by GMC and probably CQC. Including all social media in remit of GMC is dangerous and intrusive on my liberty as a citizen.Replies
As I say above I think there has been a near moral panic about social media and health professionals. But thank goodness this guidance does not inflame things at all. It doesn't to me seem to be any of the things which people feared it might be.Delete
But because of all the concern I presume that the GMC did feel that they should produce something that was going to clarify where there boundaries would be. I thought you would find it reassuring, but I'm wrong.
The use of Social Media is set to grow,and of course the lines will blur personally/professionally online. I was very sceptical initially abt twitter and inhibited about interacting with strangers,but the more I ve been online,I ve realised that people by and large are not that different,and we share a lot more inspite of cultural differences and as healthcare workers our experiences have so much in commonReplyDelete
- Anonymous20 April 2012 at 14:02
There is no way I would ever write to the GMC about this but I'm happy enough (at the behest of Anne-Marie) to comment here - which, of course, shows the value of social media.ReplyDelete
My first thought is that this advice comes much too late. A quick check shows I first blogged in 2006. That's when I needed this advice.
My second thought is that this advice doesn't really facilitate anything. I learnt the hard way that it was difficult to put clinical vignettes online without risking a breach of confidentiality. At first I started changing dates/times/sex and I kept myself anonymous but if the condition is rare that doesn't help much. As a result, I concluded that using a blog as a way of teaching on real clinical cases was unwise. Yet we have been publishing such cases for centuries. The GMC provides no solution – not with this guidance anway. My guess is that most patients would not mind and might even be pleased to have their case publicised but how do I get their permission reliably without falling foul of the regulator?
As for identifying oneself when acting in a professional capacity, I am not too comfortable with that. But what is meant by a "professional capacity"? Even if I did put my real name how would anybody know that I am really a doctor and really who I say I am? There are people on Twitter who claim to be well-known people who are imposters. None of this has been addressed. And what is a "professional capacity". Is moaning about the GMC or Mr Lansley's policies operating in a professional capacity or do they just mean things related to patient care? And if I used my real name wouldn't that be inviting patients to contact me in my area of special expertise (which I hope I have kept largely under wraps)? That's not something I want to do and, it would seem, nor should I.
The GMC tells us not to give medical advice so why do we need to identify ourselves? Requests for medical advice are, in any case, surprisingly rare. Patients as well as doctors seem to know where to draw the line. But only days ago somebody asked urgently whether an overdose of a particular drug was dangerous and whether he should take action. Thinking of the GMC advice that "you must not use social media to discuss an individual patient", I held back. Fortunately others did not and promptly gave appropriate advice. I think if they hadn't I would have done the same. It was the GMC that deterred me. As it happens the police were called and hopefully the patient was OK – though I don't know.
What if somebody tweets: "I have severe crushing chest pain"? Do you tell them that you cannot discuss their problem and that they should call their doctor for advice? Or should you tell them to call an ambulance? Or do you pretend, as I did, that you hadn't seen the tweet. These issues have always been around. I was taught as a medical student how to deal with requests for medical advice at a cocktail party. Twitter is not very different really. The advice I was given then holds good for Twitter now.
I don't welcome this advice at all because it won't be long before the GMC start prowling around the social media. Doctors won't be able to be people. They will have to be professionals. The only safe thing to do will be to stay away. Doctors will become social media lepers.
Thank you JG.You are making some very interesting points which in the main I agree with. I'll start with where I disagree. You may think I am a naive fool but I don't feel worried about the GMC prowling round social media. What warrant would they have to do that? It stays away from talking about upholding trust in the profession and ourselves 'at all times'. I had the impression that this is one of the things that people were most worried about- that this would be a license to snoop. But there is no mention of it. And I am glad of that- as the piece I have written above might suggest that I would be.Delete
Next, is the guidance too little too late? Some people think that there has never been a need for it and never will be, and you are saying that it has come too late. What should our expectations of guidance be? Blogging as a doctor (even using Twitter) are quite niche activities. At what stage should the decision be made that there is a need to help practitioners negotiate these tools?
The point that I have tried to make is that most people do now see their use of social media as part of their professional practice? Do you? It's hard for me to draw boundaries around different parts of my work but if I worked as a full-time GP I think that I would have significantly less to share or to participate with in social media. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Others will say that the GMC should be telling us how to use social media well in our professional practice but I don't think that we have many great examples of that yet either. They will come and we should be prepared to share them freely. The GMC might put some of that together for us but I think it is up to us to share our learning just as you have done above.
Next, where are our boundaries in an emergency? I think you are right that this is not covered well enough. It is one issue that I thought was important to address and I did try to flag it up. But my reasoning was different to yours. I'm aware that Good Medical Practice tells me that I am obliged to respond in an emergency anywhere in the world. That is something that I don't think doctors in other countries hold as a principle. So my issue was would I be negligent if someone sent me a message about a crushing chest pain and I didn't do anything about it. Would that mean that I was never off duty? I can only be in one physical place but I could be called upon to help out in a medical emergency anywhere in the world on Twitter. Yes, that may sound a little bizarre but it is one issue where social media really does throw up a new dilemma and it is not addressed in this guidance.
But the great thing is that we can respond! I know you don't want to respond to the official consultation but thank you for raising your points here. I really appreciate your trust.
Have a great weekend!
I love the format of GMC guidelines. Basic and adequate. Certainly a foundation on which to build should things change.ReplyDelete
A nervous group thinking that this basic guidance represents an intrusion. But I don't understand the situation across the pond.
- Anonymous23 April 2012 at 11:54
Not allowing "Junior Doctors" to describe themselves as "Doctors" on any social media. Or even better no disclosure at all, the remystification of medicine is supported by this idea of having to tell the world and his wife that you are a "Doctor".ReplyDelete
So called "Doctors" allowing all to see pictures of their OR work via photos open for all to see on Facebook. Yes! This is out there.
Great post. The post on publication of GMC policies has raised a heated debate. I think what is most important to doctors and physicians is that they should post information online having mind that they are doing this to help patients online to understand their medical conditions. The policies could be "harsh" but one thing we have to understand is that they are not implemented as a trap.ReplyDelete
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I wish I could be as sanguine as you on these matters, but my experience and natural disposition tells me that this is being driven by certain people in the GMC (that we are no longer allowed to vote in or out) for their own agenda.ReplyDelete
I think the GMC will be prowling around the social media, at the behest of the Department of Health, and those of us who are critical of these organisations will be the first to experience this.
I think, Anne Marie, you are a lovely and genuine person who sees the best in people. I wish I could be as sanguine as you - but I can't.
- Anonymous29 March 2013 at 17:45
I think the bottom line here, especially from the more experienced medics, is that most of us don't trust the GMC and have little confidence in them. Once they start having an interest in a part of our lives they then will find a need to have more and more access, because we aren't to be trusted post-Shipman/Bristol/%name-your-scandal%. Countries where regulatory bodies involve themselves in all aspects of the lives of their citizens are not usually renowned for their Freedom.ReplyDelete
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The capuchin monkey named Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour.
Authorities issued an order Tuesday transferring ownership of the animal to Germany after Bieber missed a deadline to send the documents, customs spokesman Thomas Meister said.
Bieber has six weeks to contest the decision.
Mally, now 20 weeks old, was being cared for at Munich's animal shelter. He has fared well and gained weight and even got a visit Tuesday from Germany's environment minister.
"We are going to make sure that Mally can grow up appropriately for its species," said minister Peter Altmaier.
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Cale McCaskey (I want to make sure Google Alerts lets him know what I'm saying about him) deleted my post, which is pretty ballsy considering that I'd at least read something he'd written. I bet he's never read a romance novel.
Which is too bad, because some of them are pretty damned fine. It just so happens that I wrote an ESSAY for school about just such a novel. And here's that essay:
In Dream a Little Dream (Avon Books, 1998), Susan Elizabeth Phillips uses two little boys to get the reader emotionally sucked into the story. One little boy, Edward, is alive but his well-being is at risk and he could be taken from his mother by Child Protective Services at any time. The other little boy, Jamie, is dead, so Edward's presence triggers intense grief in Jamie's father, Gabe. Even though neither Rachel nor Gabe seeks our empathy, their near-frantic emotions surrounding their sons grab us by the throat almost from the first page. (Conveniently, Edward also serves as a wedge of conflict keeping the adults apart for nearly all of the story.)
Rachel is living in her car when she returns to Salvation, N.C. on a quest to find some money she thinks her late husband, a charlatan televangelist, squirreled away. That money is her El Dorado, where she's no longer one disaster away from losing her son to a social service agency. Phillips has stacked the deck against Rachel: no immediate family, hated by the community, broke (as a result of Edward's recent hospitalization for pneumonia), and scrawny. Even though she denies herself food that she could give to him, she can't guarantee her son's physical well-being.
She experienced a surge of helplessness so powerful it nearly crushed her. She wanted to stockpile everything for [Edward], not just food, but security and self-confidence, a healthy body, a decent education, a house to live in. And no amount of self-deprivation would do any of that. She could starve herself until she was a skeleton, but that still wouldn't guarantee that Edward's belly would stay full. (Dream, p. 77)Offering sex in exchange for a job (admittedly with the hero), a step that was previously unthinkable for Rachel, becomes a deliberate, desperate choice. She will do anything for the money to feed her child. And the reader is acutely aware of how close she is to failing her son. It's her love for Edward that fuels our love and fear for her.
Gabe falls for Rachel slowly, but he can't stand Edward. Everything about Edward bothers him; the boy is a weakling where Jamie was robust, timid where Jamie was fearless, and miserable where Jamie was joyous. Of course, those complaints are all just manifestations of Edward's real fault: he's right in front of Gabe while Jamie is gone. Gabe has shunned his family's sympathy but he's also blocked his grief, preferring an emotional limbo. Edward makes that numbness impossible. Worse, Rachel's devotion to Edward eats away at Gabe's humanity, his decentness, mocking his memory of his wife telling him he was the gentlest man she'd ever known. If Rachel had been childless, they could have had a less complicated affair, but the way Edward reminds him of Jamie is a barrier Gabe can't breach.
At five years old, obviously Edward doesn't have much depth as a character, although Phillips gives him lots of personality. But he makes a delightful Cupid. Toward the end of the book, Rachel has given up on finding El Dorado and decided to leave Salvation because she loves Gabe too much to stay. He proposes, but they both know that a future is impossible while Gabe can't love Edward. Edward (who wants to be called Chip) has dreamed up a way to keep Rachel from taking him to Florida: he and Gabe will pretend to like each other. But Edward can tell that Gabe's not pretending very well, and he yells at Gabe, then causes an accident. Gabe spanks Edward.
The child rubbed his elbow, even though it wasn't his elbow that hurt. He tilted his head to one side and caught his bottom lip between his teeth. It quivered. He didn't look at Gabe. He didn't look at anything. He just tried not to cry.It takes Rachel a chapter or so to believe that Gabe's let go of his grief, but by that time they've found the money, cured a little girl's leukemia, and sorted out all the subplots.
And in that moment, Gabe finally saw the child as himself, instead of as a reflection of Jamie. He saw a brave little boy with flyaway brown hair, knobby elbows, and a small, quivering mouth. A gentle little boy who loved books and building things. A child who found contentment not in expensive toys or the latest video games, but in watching a baby sparrow grow stronger, in collecting pinecones and living with his mother on Heartache Mountain, in being carried around on a man's shoulders and pretending, if only for a moment, that he had a father.
How could he ever have mixed up Chip and Jamie in his mind, even for a moment? Jamie had been Jamie, uniquely his own person. And so was this vulnerable little boy he'd struck. (Dream, pp. 317-318.)
As a writer, I admire the efficiency with which Phillips tells the reader to care deeply about Rachel's well-being. Without Edward, Rachel's quest is self-serving, not self-sacrificing. Without Edward, she's rootless and even prickly. Without Edward, her resistance to Gabe would seem stupid. Similarly, Gabe's grief for his own son would surely have muted faster if Edward had not been an affront to his heart. Most importantly, Phillips takes care to make Edward plausible and distinct as a fictional little boy.Now, that's an essay! And that's a great romance novel. I'd be happy if I could write one even half as effective as Dream a Little Dream.
As for Cale McCaskey, here's a comment he posted, probably around the same time he deleted mine:
I will not rehash stupidty [sic] people. Read prior comments before trying to post your own to make sure your nonsense has not already been gone over or it will be deleted. I don't have the time, nor the inclination to deal with a pack of throw-away housewives who still sit around thinking about romance like a 13-year old girl. You can do that if you want to, but do it away from me. I like women, not little girls. I think you'll find most men in the upper half of the IQ spectrum feel the same way, as do most women.I could write a five-paragraph essay on the thesis that McCaskey's blog post fails because it's riddled with restatements of the thesis instead of supporting evidence, plus his comments are larded with ad hominem attacks, but I won't bother. I think Google Alerts has enough to work with here.


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The Chiquita banana jingle
"I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say…" Chances are, you can sing, or at least hum, a few bars of the famous Chiquita Banana jingle. The song first hit the airwaves in 1944 when Miss Chiquita made her debut.
It was written to help teach Americans how to ripen and use bananas, which were, at the time, an exotic tropical fruit. At its peak, the jingle was played 376 times a day on radio stations across the United States. It was one of the most successful commercial jingles of all time. The song was created by an ad agency team led by Robert Foreman. Foreman and his staff developed the jingle using office talent, an old piano and a box of paper clips shaken to simulate maracas. Garth Montgomery wrote the lyrics and co-worker Len MacKenzie provided the music.?
The singer in the original 1944 recording was Patti Clayton, the first in a long line of Miss Chiquitas.
"I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say - Bananas have to ripen in a certain way - When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue - Bananas taste the best and are best for you - You can put them in a salad - You can put them in a pie-aye - Any way you want to eat them - It's impossible to beat them - But, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator - So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator."
"Chiquita Banana" (words and music by Garth Montgomery, Leonard Mackenzie, William Wirges) under license to Chiquita Brands L.L.C. ? 1945 Shawnee Press Inc.
Over the years, the familiar tune has remained the same, but the lyrics have been rewritten many times, usually to support special causes and projects. In 1999, we updated the lyrics to make the jingle more relevant for consumers and to highlight the nutritional benefits of eating a Chiquita banana everyday:
"I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say - I offer good nutrition in a simple way - When you eat a Chiquita you've done your part - To give every single day a healthy start - Underneath the crescent yellow - You'll find vitamins and great taste - With no fat, you just can't beat 'em - You'll feel better when you eat 'em - They're a gift from Mother Nature and a natural additional to your table - For wholesome, healthy, pure bananas - look for Chiquita's label!"
Lyrics ? 1999 Chiquita Brands L.L.C.
Music ? 1945 Shawnee Press Inc. under license to Chiquita Brands L.L.C.
In 2015 the jingle was rewritten for the launch of the "Just Smile" campaign.
Today, it's still the "top banana" in jingles. Sing it for yourself, and then listen below!
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Charlie Sheen is still waiting for a thank you from Lindsay Lohan after he reportedly loaned her $100,000 to help pay her debts.
The actor is said to have given the troubled 26-year-old the generous sum after discovering she owes more than $233,904 to the Internal Revenue Service.
Sheen has not confirmed the exact amount he handed to his Scary Movie 5 co-star, but tells U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight the payment was money Lohan was owed from a project.
However, Sheen admits Lohan has yet to acknowledge his generosity.
He says, "She's a very good and decent young lady that is just going through a lot. They owed her money, didn't pay her, so I took care of it. My whole code's about pay it forward.
"She got shorted and I found out, so I said, 'Here.' I'm still waiting for a text to say thank you. Anything, anything, you know?"
Sheen adds, "I wish her the best. She just needs a little bit of time. People need to give her some time to get her s**t together."
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On June 28, 2012, Polish Central Archives of Historical Records (Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych) in cooperation with Association "Archivum Patriae" and Wikimedia Polska started releasing scans of old historical documents and manuscripts. So far over 1000 scans (list) have been uploaded to Commons.
The driving force of the cooperation from the Central Archives and "Archivum Patriae"'s point of view is to make these documents as widely used in Wikimedia projects (and not only there) as possible. Although all of the scans are in the public domain, please always provide information about the source of the documents and a proper description of them.
At present the scans are provided by members of "Archivum Patriae" and uploaded manually by User:sp5uhe from Wikimedia Polska and User:Lukasz Truscinski from "Archivum Patriae". The scans are of high technical quality (proper color adjustment, no geometrical distortion, neutral white lighting) and have relatively high resolution (2000 px on longer side). The scans definitely do not need any additional technical corrections.
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- Description: Please, translate the descriptions of the scans into other languages; since a number of the documents concern international affairs of the Kingdom of Poland, they might be interesting to people from other countries, too.
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Can we agree that calls for a government to violate international law are not a helpful contribution to the public debate? That's what the New York Times offered when it published a call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land in a letter from Richard Gertler of Teaneck, New Jersey.
Gertler argues against the "two-state solution" because it would lead to "the dissolution of Jewish sovereignty" and would amount to the "ethnic cleansing" of Jews living in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. He concludes by saying: "If the creation of a Palestinian state necessitates transfer of Jews from [the settlement of] Har Bracha in the West Bank, then the creation of the redefined Israel ought to necessitate the transfer of its Arab minority as well."
Israeli settlements in the West Bank, though, are built illegally on Palestinian land and violate the Fourth Geneva Conventions, which prohibit countries from transferring "parts of its own civilian population into territories it occupies." On the other hand, Palestinian officials have indicated that Israeli settlers living on land that became a Palestinian state would be offered Palestinian citizenship if they were to stay there.
Gertler's letter is nothing less than a call to kick out Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20 percent of the total population there. Palestinian citizens of Israel are the remnants of the indigenous Palestinian population that at one point were the overwhelming majority in historic Palestine until the 1947-49 wars that lead to the creation of Israel and resulted in the expulsion and flight of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land.
Gertler's notion of a "two-state solution" is straight from the playbook of the far-right Foreign Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, who has in the past called for "loyalty" oaths that would strip Palestinians of their Israeli citizenship if they didn't pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish state.
Regard for free expression does not require the Times to publish calls for nations to commit war crimes, anymore than the paper is obligated to provide a platform for those who see lynching or assassination as solutions to domestic problems. But when the proposed victims are Palestinian, corporate media seem to have a different standard.
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Posted 03 February 2017 - 04:52 PM
what are your thoughts about it? does it explain dejavu's and mysterious sightings like people or cyclists in crosswalks, that aren't really there... or ending up on the other side of an accident when there should have been an impact, or even personal items that magically appear when we think they've been lost forever? i don't want to negate the idea that angels are amoung us, but maybe there is room for both ideas....
curious! and i'd love to talk about something other than politics for a while! haha
Posted 03 February 2017 - 08:22 PM
Back in "05 we moved to the Houston area and our son and his family moved there too.
When we got there we stayed in a motel for our son's closing on his house was the next day and we were going to stay with him while we house hunted. We had two dogs with us. The next morning as we prepared to leave the motel I took the dogs out to potty and brought them back in. I laid both leashes side by side on the floor. I started packing up and one of our two phone chargers for our cell phones was missing. Then I noticed that one leash was missing. They had both been there and then they weren't. We turned that room upside down looking for those two things. We had not left the room since I brought the dogs in.
So a few weeks went by and we bought a house and moved in it. A couple of more weeks went by and one day I opened the linen closet door and there neatly rolled up was the leash and the phone charger. They had followed us to our new house several weeks later.
I have had things vanish and come back later in the same place. But this was just crazy. I am glad I was not along because no one would have believed me.
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i've seen people at crosswalks that were there then gone, and similar to elinda's story, i was going through a divorce and very distraught. i was out for coffee with a girlfriend who went up to the counter to get our order. a woman came up to me, who out of the blue told me everything was going to be alright. i nodded and agreed, thanking her. she was dressed in what i would call hippie layers or gypsy layers. i asked the people near me at the coffee shop if they knew who that was and the guy said, 'who? i didn't see anyone' but suddenly their conversation turned to healthy fast food restaurants of the future. a year later i was in a hypnosis session for quitting smoking when i had a meditation where i went back and told myself 'everything was going to be alright'. i recognized me at the coffee shop, but i think it's interesting i didn't recognize me 'from the future'. i also thought it was interesting when that time-space opened it brought a rush of 'ideas' to the people at the table next to me.
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Millie G, on 04 February 2017 - 08:12 AM, said:
Mills, What are your thoughts on the holographic universe theory? It allows for many simultaneous lives being lived as a parallel. Familiar with Ellie Crystal? She just did a live blog spot on channeling..let me see if I can find it. It's her funny take on how we plug into the holograph...
found: scroll down to find her youtube video comparing plugging into the holographic universe like lily thomlin
Posted 04 February 2017 - 01:12 PM
I was told I had an appointment at the house across the street, "on the other side" of the street. Had to go up some steps "to a higher level"
The door was opened by 8 "people" who I have seen before. They are my 8 guides. They are very happy to see me and step back for me to come into the kitchen. We are standing all together chatting when someone enters the room, an older woman. The guides all stop talking and start backing away. the woman walks to the counter and she is not facing me and I notice her hair is grey and done up on top of her head like Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith show. Then she turns and comes toward me and she is me! My knees go weak and I sit down in a kitchen chair at the table. The woman smiles at me like she is amused at my distress and she asks what is wrong. I can barely speak but I say "We have the same spirit!"
Now is this the same thing? Was that another form of me who came to make me understand something? Higher Self maybe? And now a dozen years later we are discussing these things. Finally.
When my mother shows up in dreams it always mean there is an important message for me. She does not come very often and she usually just watches but that tells me it is important. She was the one who told me I had to go to the house on the other side at 8 O' clock.
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Revival: A Revival of Repentance
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.—2 Chronicles 7:14
I have little fear that any nation or combination of nations could bring down the United States and Canada by military action from without. But this I do fear-we sin and sin and do nothing about it. There is so little sense of the need of repentance-so little burden for the will of God to be wrought in our national life. I fear that the voice of blood will become so eloquent that God Almighty will have no choice but to speak the word that will bring us down.
I do pray often: "Oh God, send a revival of repentance and the fear of God that will sweep through the continent that we may be spared and that we may honor Thee!" Echoes from Eden, 44.
"Lord, I pray for our country today. We've deteriorated morally so horribly since Tozer's day. I too pray, 'Oh God, send a revival of repentance and the fear of God that will sweep through the continent that we may be spared and that we may honor Thee!' Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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Excuse me, TPNFRC does not cheat! I'm on a lot when he is on, I see him earn his points. Can we drop this ridiculous idea already?
I've also seen aGIRL earn her points. I've seen nothing suspicious from her. You can earn hundreds of points in minutes. I was recently in a game where someone earned an easy 427 points legitimately. I have had games of +391 and +390. A long time ago I was in a game where Zer0 earned 500.
The question is where are Seth, Play, and Twigs; I'm surprised they have been away from this thread so long?
Let's try to stay on topic, now.