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The Lady Flames soccer team heads to Rock Hill, S.C., for this weekend's Winthrop Tournament. Liberty will open the tournament against Appalachian State, Friday at 4:30 p.m. inside Eagle Stadium.
The Liberty women's soccer team will be looking for its first victory of 2010 this weekend, when it heads to Rock Hill, S.C. for the Winthrop Tournament. The four team tournament takes place at Eagle Field and also includes Winthrop, Appalachian State and Marshall.
The Lady Flames begin tournament action Friday at 4:30 p.m. against Appalachian State. Liberty then concludes the weekend with a contest against Marshall at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Liberty/Appalachian State Series Information Liberty heads into its matchup with Appalachian State looking to even the series. The Lady Flames currently hold a 3-4-0 record against the Mountaineers. The most recent meeting took place Oct. 8, 2002 in Boone, N.C., resulting in a 1-0 loss for Liberty in overtime.
Scouting the Mountaineers Friday's contest marks Appalachian State's season opener. Last season, the Mountaineers finished with an overall record of 6-9-4 and a 4-2-2 posting in Southern Conference play.
On Saturday, the Mountaineers earned a 3-2 decision in an exhibition game against the North Georgia Lady Saints. Appalachian State received goals from juniors Nicole Martinez and Katy Dodd and freshman Amy Werdine, who netted the game winner.
Liberty/Marshall Series Information Liberty's game against Marshall marks the second meeting between the two squads. The previous meeting also took place at a neutral site, as the two squads met on Sept. 10, 1999 at the Penguin Soccer Cup in Youngstown, Ohio. Marshall took the contest against the Lady Flames, 1-0.
Scouting the Herd Prior to Sunday's matchup with the Lady Flames, Marshall will meet tournament host Winthrop Friday night at 7 p.m. Marshall enters the weekend after dropping its season opener 3-2, to Cleveland State. The Herd fell behind early, leaving themselves a 2-0 deficit at halftime. A Katie Ball header, off an Angela DeSumma cross cut the lead in half.
However, it would not stay that way for long. The Viking's Jessica McCloy retaliated with a header of her own to score the eventual game-winner and give Cleveland State a two goal cushion. DeSumma would add a goal in the 76th minute, but that is as close as the Herd would come. DeSumma ended with a goal and an assist, while accumulating a game-high four shots on the afternoon, placing all four on goal.
Where's Winthrop? Liberty will not meet tournament host and fellow Big South Conference competitor Winthrop during this weekend's action. However, the two squads are slated to square off on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. inside Osborne Stadium. The Lady Flames will look for redemption that night, as the 2009 regular-season Big South Champions fell to the Eagles on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals of the conference championship.
Recent Outing Despite the Liberty women's soccer team (0-1-1) holding a 1-0 edge for the majority of its contest with South Carolina State (1-0-1) on Sunday afternoon at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium, the Lady Bulldogs rallied in the 83rd minute to ultimately force a 1-1 tie.
The contest remained scoreless for the opening 16 minutes until midfielder Aimee Luurtsema found the net for an unassisted goal at 16:33. The junior's marker was her first of the season and the fourth during her collegiate career.
Liberty held off the Lady Bulldogs' offensive attack for the entire first period and much of the second stanza. South Carolina State's goal at 83:05 came when Darci Smith took the Lady Bulldogs' final shot of the game, knotting the contest for the 1-1 final.
Pick-and-Save Senior goalkeeper Ashley Nyholt recorded eight saves in Liberty's season opener against Virginia last Friday, surpassing her previous career-high of seven. This past Sunday, Nyholt upped the ante once again, recording a new career-high of nine saves against South Carolina State.
Through Liberty's first two games, Nyholt sits at number two among Big South goalkeepers with 16. She is currently six saves behind Presbyterian's Sarah Beth Anderson, who has 22 in 2010.
New Soccer and Track Operations Building Named Liberty Athletics Director Jeff Barber and the Liberty Athletics Department have announced the naming of the new soccer and track and field operations building as the Luurtsema Center.
The Luurtsema Center will serve as an operations building for men's and women's soccer and both track and field programs. The 5,000 square foot building on the south end of the Osborne Stadium complex was made possible by a leadership gift from Bill and Wanda Luurtsema of Grandville, Mich.
The couple will be publicly honored for their gift during Liberty's football game against Charleston Southern and women's soccer contest against Winthrop on Oct. 9, both part of Liberty's annual homecoming weekend.
The Luurtsema Center, which was completed in mid-August, also houses locker rooms, a training room and a laundry facility. Hain at the Helm Liberty Head Women's Soccer Coach Jessica Hain enters her third season at the program's helm. Last season, Hain led the Lady Flames to a Big South regular-season title and was named 2009 Big South Coach of the Year. Hain came to Liberty after three seasons with the Charlotte Lady Eagles of the United States (USL) W-League, the premier women's soccer league in the United States, as an assistant to head coach Lee Horton. With the club, Hain was responsible for recruiting players for the team, implementing training sessions, running camps and clinics and coaching, training and teaching sports ministry, both in the United States and in Brazil.
A four-year letterwinner in the collegiate ranks, Hain played two years in the midfield at Ohio State (1995-96) and two seasons at N.C. State (1997-98). She was a three-time National Soccer Coaches Association (NSCAA) of America Scholar-Athlete from 1995-97 and earned Academic All-ACC honors in 1998. Preseason Favorites The Liberty women's soccer team was chosen first in the Big South Conference's annual preseason poll, as voted by the league's head women's soccer coaches. Liberty, the defending 2009 regular-season champions, received five first-place votes and 94 points as the 2010 women's soccer favorite. The Lady Flames finished ahead of Charleston Southern in the poll, as the Buccaneers totaled 87 points and four first-place votes.
Worst to First The 2009 Lady Flames executed the best turnaround in Big South history, progressing from finishing last in the conference with a mark of 3-12-2 in 2008 to a first place finish with a 9-7-3 record in 2009. Liberty also claimed a 6-1-3 conference posting, earning the moniker of 2009 Big South regular-season champions.
Looking Ahead Liberty will make its 2010 debut inside Osborne Stadium next Wednesday at 7 p.m. against James Madison. The Lady Flames are looking for their first-ever win against the CAA power, as the Dukes lead the series, 3-0.
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Welcome to the Summer edition of the Greater Toronto Chapter Newsletter. We have lots to tell you about, but first a little news about the Chapter:
When we speak to members and industry stakeholders on a variety of fronts, they are often surprised to hear the size of the Chapter. The Chapter continues to enjoy rapid growth and our membership has recently surpassed 2100 green building professionals from the Greater Golden Horseshoe region. Our passion for green building is clearly contagious!
Not only do we have lots of events and programs planned for this fall and winter, we are planning a member survey for late summer / early fall that will help us learn more about your hopes and ambitions for the Chapter and the roles each of you would like to play in advancing the green building agenda. Our goal is to deliver more relevant programming, incredible value and to continue to build on our collective momentum. Stay tuned for your opportunity to help shape our future.
We've got a lot more to tell you about below:
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Chapter Meeting, Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Chapter Boat Cruise featuring Waterfront Toronto CEO
Green Building Festival Sponsor Opportunities
Chapter Committee Volunteer Opportunities
Chapter Meeting, Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Join us for a Summer Garden Party Featuring the Toronto Better Buildings Partnership and Enbridge
Join fellow Chapter members and friends for a "summer garden party" at the Toronto Botanical Garden. Hear about the City's latest and greatest green building and energy incentive programs and enjoy the incredible surroundings of Toronto's first non-profit facility to be LEED Certified - the beautiful Toronto Botanical Gardens. Our partners the Better Buildings Partnership and Enbridge will present the latest on their arrays of energy conservation and green building incentive programs. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting summer event.Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Time: 5:30pm to 8pm
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More information on this event will be provided in early August.
We thank the Better Buildings Partnership and Enbridge for their support of this event.
Chapter Boat Cruise featuring Waterfront Toronto CEO
Let's cruise together as we explore the revitalization of Toronto's Waterfront!
On September 16th, 2009 the Canada Green Building Council Greater Toronto Chapter will be hosting its Chapter Meeting on board the Mariposa Belle, a legendary paddle wheeler that is part of Toronto's harbourfront history.
This 4 hour cruise will feature a presentation on the West Don Lands Project by John Campbell, CEO of Waterfront Toronto. Don't miss this great opportunity to close the summer with a breathtaking view of the city while you network with industry colleagues and Chapter members!
Key elements from the West Don Lands Precinct Plan include:
- 23 acres of parks and public spaces including 18-acre Don River Park
- Public transit within a five-minute walk of all residences
- 5,800 residential units, including 1,200 units of affordable rental housing
- One-million square feet of employment space
- Pedestrian & cycling connections within neighbourhood and to city
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The Cruise includes a 4 hour tour of Lake Ontario along the waterfront, Buffet Dinner, Door Prizes and DJ entertainment for your dancing pleasure. Beverages will be served at a cash bar.
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The 2009 edition of the Green Building Festival is fast approaching!
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A word bursts on the scene, fresh, faddish, perhaps consciously classical or rebellious or hip. It has its Warhol-appointed quarter-hour or its full Shakespearean hour on the stage, and then it slips back, retreats into the thin pages of the dictionary, eventually dies with a dagger through its heart and has its grave condition marked with an obelisk. Such is life; vanity may be glorious, but all glory is vain.
But just because this too shall pass doesn't mean we should despise it. Indeed, the very evanescence of life's delights enjoins us to enjoy them: if not now, when? Every moment is a new opportunity. Take it. Just don't become attached to it. Relish it and relinquish it. Spend the moment well; just don't give it meaning beyond its worth. Don't think your first-class upgrade makes you a first-class person. Take the meretricious for its merry tricks, knowing you will be rapt one moment but unwrapped the next, and discard the rapper when it is empty.
Take this word, kenodoxy. Is it not glittery like a cut diamond, or at least like glass costume jewelry? The two hard velar stops are represented with sharp angular strokes in k and x; the third set of angles are a tail, a vowel y. It touches at the back, tip, tip, back and tip of the tongue. It sounds crisp and detailed and looks stylish in an expensive-watch sort of way: a beautiful machine so exquisitely made, you will pay much for it even if it doesn't perform its ostensible function as accurately as a cheaper one may do. It glitters like a lottery winner; it has the meretrix's merry tricks.
Lottery? How about keno? There's a fun game, involving drawing numbers to match pre-selected numbers – originally five, hence the name keno, from Latin quinque. And meretrix? That's an old word for a lady who has the oldest profession, one who will share her glories for a price and a limited time – ah, such is life. Another (perhaps less nice) word for the same is doxy. So. Keno and doxy? Free money and pricey love, twin impermanent luxuries? Perhaps you would not appreciate something so much like a diamond-studded balloon that will, when optimally filled, pop from the diamonds' sharp points. But perhaps others would. And perhaps we all engage in a little kenodoxy.
Kenodoxy is not from keno the game plus doxy the gamer. Actually, it's from Greek κενοδοξία kenodoxia, from κενός kenos 'empty' (whence kenosis) and δόξα doxa 'glory'. (My, doesn't that xi – ξ – look like a snake coiled and ready to bite?) Kenodoxy is, according to Oxford, an obsolete rare word meaning "The love, study, or desire of vain-glory."
Oh, yes, vainglory! We do glory in our vanities, and remind ourselves of their impermanence. Riding high in April, shot down in May, but we'll be back in June. Quicquid enim florui, felix et beatus, nunc a summo corrui, gloria privatus. Worldes blis ne last no throwe. But you might as well get it while you can. As we are counselled by much of the entire œuvre of rap and hip-hop.
O vainglory, how can we not be captivated by you? Here is a little bit of kenodoxy from Old Goriot by Balzac:
Love in Paris is a thing distinct and apart; for in Paris neither men nor women are the dupes of the commonplaces by which people seek to throw a veil over their motives, or to parade a fine affectation of disinterestedness in their sentiments. In this country within a country, it is not merely required of a woman that she should satisfy the senses and the soul; she knows perfectly well that she has still greater obligations to discharge, that she must fulfill the countless demands of a vanity that enters into every fiber of that living organism called society. Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan.
The vainglory of love, the love of vainglory, the vainglory of the love of vainglory.
We do not have to engage ingenuously in vainglory. We can always stand apart, observing ourselves bouncing in the ballroom of the world, delivering keynotes and savouring the finest things. This aesthetic appreciation that leads to insight, what the Sanskrit philosophers called rasadhvani, can also be applied to vainglory. Take your kenodoxy out from your lexical jewel-box and wear this rock on your ring finger. Be engaged in it. Just know that all vainglory is a jilt, and in the end you will be disengaged, whether you want or not.


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2006 Cadillac XLR – Pictures and My Review Of This Car
2006 Cadillac XLR
While cruising through the 2006 Houston Auto Show, I spent some time investigating the Cadillac XLR, mostly because sports cars always fascinate me as do the people who buy them. So who would buy a Cadillac XLR? To me, the car screams of masculinity and power.
It's an awesome car that comes with an awesome price tag (suggested retail starts at $77,295) and includes all the fine luxuries expected with an attention grabbing vehicle.
Some of its features include:
6L 310 hp, Northstar, V8 engine
Magnetic Ride Control (Computer-controlled suspension system and adjustable monotube performance shock absorbers)
adaptive forward lighting which provides illumination in the direction of steering (which is old technology – Tucker developed this in the 50's.)
Nine speaker surround sound system
Other features include
18-inch aluminum wheels
Magnasteer steering
Power retractable roof
Keyless access (designed by Bvlgari)
Adaptive Cruise Control
Mmemory package
Rainsense automatic wipers with moisture detection and much more.
With 27.6 inches of head room, 42.6 inches of leg room and 54.3 in. shoulder room, to me the 2006 Cadillac XLR compares to Corvette. Pretty much the same look, same interior space, comparible horsepower and caters to the same type of drivers. Will it be around as long as the Vette, and have a loyal following like the Vette…I think not.


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Buying makeup can be expensive, particularly if you are looking at designer brands such as Dior, Nars, and Bobby Brown. Though it may seem tempting to stretch the budget when buying these makeup items, this can lead to the budget becoming tight. If this is the case, there is the option for unsecured loans, however, ...
Why You Should Be Using the Hush Beauty App
Let's face it, most of us millennials are on a pretty strict budget. We don't have the money to always get that new makeup palette that we're dying to have. Or if you're like me, you're so busy that you don't notice when you've run out of foundation before you could purchase a replacement. You ...
What's New in Makeup: Stila Cosmetics Spring 2018
Nothing gets me more excited than new beauty bits, especially when they are products that will live up to any type of hype. Made by one of my favorite brands and a part of their own latest collection, Stila Cosmetics has launched their Spring 2018 Bohemian Beauty Collection filled with glitter, glow, and everything nice. ...
Pumpkin Spice Your Cosmetics
If you had to make a choice between your pumpkin spice latte or your cosmetics, which would you choose? We couldn't pick just one, either. Get ready to spice up everything in your beauty bag this season with pumpkin-colored lipstick and even pumpkin-scented hand soap. Trust us: these six treats are as sweet as your PSL.
Summer to Fall Makeup Routine
Each season brings forth a few favorite beauty details that we find the most joy in during that time. With winter, we are met with red lips and dark rich tones; the blooming of spring brings us colored liner and pastel hues; and with summer comes dewy, glowy skin and bright nail polishes. Come fall, we are reaching for dark lip products and warm, metallic eyeshadows. Now, the transition between these seasons can be quite surprising no matter how many times we experience it. Often times we find the change in weather has happened overnight, suddenly and without warning.
Beauty Goods You Need To Try This Summer
Summer is one of my favorite seasons for beauty. The latest launches are all about fresh, glowy skin, sweet fragrances, and embracing your natural locks. We're basking in all that this season's bliss has to offer with beauty goods you need to try this summer. Whether you're looking to catch a tan and protect your skin, are on the hunt for that next delicious scent, or want to master beachy waves, we've got you covered. Scroll through for beauty products you'll want to carry in your beach tote from now until next summer.
Are These Best-Selling Drugstore Beauty Products Really Worth the Hype?
We've seen them spotlighted in YouTube videos, raved about on our Twitter timelines, and shot hundreds of times in Instagram posts—but when it comes down to it, are these best-selling drugstore beauty products really worth the hype? Well, we've swatched them, bought them, tested them, shared them with friends, and we are now letting you in on all there is to know about the beauty products that have remained at the top of everyone's charts. From the L'Oreal Paris True Match Lumi Cushion Foundation that sprouted from the K-beauty market to Wet n Wild's makeup brushes that always seem to be sold out, read up on what is really worth it and what will not make your next trip to the drugstore totally worth it.
Our Holiday Beauty Gift Guide
The neighborhoods are filled with soft lights and bright lawn ornaments, peppermint is added into everything, and holiday classics are playing on the radio. We say it every year, but we'll say it again: my, how fast the holidays have come. As we fill our handbags with shopping lists, try to score the best deals out there, and decorate our homes in time for our family visits, it's quite incredible how we even manage to get gift shopping done. If you're not an early bird who gets everything crossed off their list by the end of November (guilty as charged), don't stress yourself out over it.
5 Eyeshadow Palettes for Fall
Warm tones, metallic details, and rich hues—the color palette of fall is hands down one of my favorites. Whether I'm creating a daytime look with variations of browns and oranges, or it's a night out and I'm feeling a bit mysterious with deep plum and burgundy pigments, it's a season where you can be inspired by everything. From crisp, fallen leaves to spooky Halloween movies, you can make a look from it all with the help of a versatile eyeshadow palette. The question is, though, which one do you pick? With so many eyeshadow palettes making their debut every season, it can be a task in itself trying to choose which ones to add to your shopping cart.
The Brand You Need to Know: Di Blasi
I had the pleasure of chatting with the Girl Boss of all Girl Bosses: Tatiana Puglisi. There is nothing and no one that will stand in her way because, as you will soon see, this woman is a woman of strength, determination, and persistence. Join in on the fun of discovering this beautiful and enlightened woman and why it is 100% worth your while to check out her brand: Di Blasi Cosmetics.We have a feeling she will (and okay, I may be slightly prejudiced because I'm Italian, but that's beside the point!) exceed your expectations like she did ours.
Our Favorite YouTube Beauty Gurus Of The Moment
Among the never-ending amount of videos that appear on YouTube on a daily basis, the question that always seems to linger is "Who is the next big thing?" Well, as a YouTube connoisseur whose guilty pleasure is none other than binge-watching YouTube beauty guru channels, it's my pleasure to share with you three YouTube beauty gurus who are gaining views by the thousands. Ever since I started my YouTube obsession in 2009 (I know—talk about ages ago), I have been a dedicated viewer who is constantly on the lookout for new channels. Now in 2016, there seems to be a new age of YouTube beauty gurus who are more different from the next.
Back to School Beauty with Pacifica x Target
It's that time again! With summer drawing to a close, the back-to-school advertisements have begun, sharing with all of us the school essentials—from fashion to beauty—that we'll be needing to stock up on this year. We're here to not only help you feel refreshed for the upcoming season, but to make sure you're prepared for anything that'll be jotted down in your school agenda. And what better way to start than with a list of beauty must haves that'll have you wishing for the first day of school? We're sure there will be no early morning blues when you have beauty goodies from the latest Pacifica x Target collection.


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Parking Offenders on Film – 7/13/2007
As you can see on the left sidebar of Hoboken411.com, I've re-organized the parking section a little bit. I've moved Street Cleaning as a sub-section, as well as added two new sub-categories: "City Offender Zone" (dedicated to City vehicles only), and "Offenders on Film" (all other offenders you feel worthy of submission).
Let's start today's gallery out with a few pictures from an anonymous reader (in the 9th St. Area), as well as a few I took myself yesterday (near 14th and Bloomfield). One van had the dubious honor of blocking not one, but TWO crosswalks simultaneously. Bravo!
All submitted pictures will get periodically compiled into a "gallery of shame" for permanent viewing here on 411. Before you complain, yeah, there are much worse things to worry about, but why the heck not try to cover it all?
Here's a couple, see the rest after the break.


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Marco Pirroni
Marco Pirroni
|Birth name
|Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni
|27 April 1959
|Camden Town, North London, England
|New wave, post-punk, punk rock
|Years active
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|Adam and the Ants, Adam Ant, Rema Rema, The Wolfmen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, Spear of Destiny
Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni (born 27 April 1959, London, England)[1] frequently credited simply as Marco,[2][3] is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others from the late 1970s to the present day.[4]
Born in Archway, he lived with his Italian parents in Camden Town until 15 years old, when they moved to Manor Road, Harrow. He briefly attended art school.[citation needed]
Siouxsie and the Banshees[edit]
A linchpin of the UK punk scene, Pirroni's first appearance on stage was with Siouxsie and the Banshees in their début gig, at 1976's 100 Club Punk Festival. Future Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was on drums.[5]
Short-lived bands[edit]
Pirroni then formed the Models (who recorded the single "Freeze" in 1977), and then Rema-Rema, whose "Wheel in the Roses" EP appeared on the 4AD record label the following year. In those days he formed part of Cowboys International, but it was for a short time. He teamed up with Adam and the Ants in 1980.[citation needed]
Adam Ant[edit]
Pirroni acted as lead guitarist and co-songwriter, penning two UK number one singles and a further four Top Ten hits, with Ant. The two albums he co-wrote for Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming, both made the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart ("Kings" #1; "Prince Charming" #2).[citation needed]
When Adam and the Ants disbanded in 1982, Pirroni was retained as Adam Ant's co-writer; they produced another number-one single ("Goody Two Shoes") and an album (Friend or Foe), followed by nine more Top 20 hits. Ant and Pirroni won two shared Ivor Novello Awards for "Stand and Deliver". [6]
Pirroni and Ant working together sold more than eighteen million records worldwide, scoring number ones in Australia, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Israel and Japan as well as in the UK.[citation needed]
Sinéad O'Connor[edit]
In early 1987, Marco Pirroni featured on Sinéad O'Connor's début album The Lion and the Cobra. He subsequently worked on her albums I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got and Universal Mother. He co-wrote and played guitar on a number of tracks on her album How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?, released in March 2012.[citation needed]
Recent years[edit]
The 21st century has seen Pirroni increasingly cited as an authority on the punk movement, both on record and in print. Having consulted on two major compilations, Punk and Dread Meets The Punk Rockers Uptown, he released the SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die and Biba: Champagne and Novocaine on his own label, Only Lovers Left Alive.
He played on The Slits' EP Revenge of the Killer Slits in 2006. He was until recently a member of The Wolfmen with Chris Constantinou. They released one EP, several singles, written music for television advertisements and released a début album, entitled Modernity Killed Every Night. The Wolfmen released their second album, Prisoners of Sodomy in 2011.
Pirroni collaborated with UK band Bald Headcount on their album Lullabies for Dogs in 2013, receiving co-writing and production credits. He had previously worked on the band's 2002 début album It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You.[citation needed]
After living in London's Marylebone for several years, Pirroni relocated to north Derbyshire in 2013.[citation needed]
With Adam and the Ants
- Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)
- Prince Charming (1981)
With Adam Ant
- Friend or Foe (1982)
- Strip (1983)
- Vive Le Rock (1985)
- Manners & Physique (1990)
- Persuasion (unreleased) (1993)
- Wonderful (1995)
- Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter' (2013)
With Sinéad O'Connor
- The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
- Universal Mother (1994)
- How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (2012)
With Spear of Destiny
- Outland (1987)
With The Slits
- Revenge of the Killer Slits (2006)
With The Wolfmen
- Modernity Killed Every Night (2008)
- Prisoners of Sodomy (2011)
With Department S
- "Wonderful Day"
- "Is Vic There (Slight return)"
- ^ "a b o u t : m a r c o p i r r o n i". Onlyloversleftalive.co.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ Credits, Kings Of The Wild Frontier album, CBS 1980
- ^ Credits, Prince Charming album, CBS 1981
- ^ Corner, Lena. "How We Met: Siobhan Fahey & Marco Pirroni". The Independent.
- ^ Johns, Brian (1989). Entranced: the Siouxsie and the Banshees story. Omnibus Press. p. 10. ISBN 0-7119-1773-6.
- ^ "1982 Winners". TheIvors.com. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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|Succeeded by
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- English people of Italian descent
- Living people
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- Ivor Novello Award winners
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As a coach, do I provide a great service to my clients? Is there more I could do? I am busy with this question every day!
I decided to review what I have learned about my client's needs as they have arisen out of our work together, and I found some surprising truths about what my clients really need from me.
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One client recently told me he appreciates that I don't make him feel ashamed if he doesn't do his homework. And moreover, he felt it worthwhile to mention that I don't play games with him. Do people generally play games with their clients, or in relationships with others? Needless to say, I was surprised that this was important to him, and a great eye opener to the fundamental need for transparency and truth, given with care and warmth and kindness, in order to foster trust.
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What the client needs is what the client gets, within the framework of what I can provide. Scheduling is flexible, the needs of the moment in the session all important, how the client wants to engage with me is up to them. Does so much flexibility actually serve my client as well as myself? I am surprised to find it does, because this is the top feedback I get: they appreciate that I am flexible to their needs – they feel met. Moreover, they are encouraged to actually think about what they need, not often an easy thing to know. We can together discover a lot about what is important to them when there is a safe space within which to do it; the permission is there to throw a spanner in the works if need be. They know it is safe to change their minds, to ask for a course correction, to speak about their unmet needs, and they know I won't have a problem with it.
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I go over the agreements we made in the session about what they will get done that week, and I mention some main points or discoveries or insights that came up. The feedback I have gotten from my clients is that they have two hard copies of the main notes to help them (theirs and mine), and they appreciate the structure this provides – the sessions continue to work in them during the week. It is a little more work, but using my google calendar to remind me and last week's notes (I am a copious note taker) I am now pretty efficient at it.
6. Providing structure and organization.
The rhythm of emailing an agenda, the session, and then a re-cap the next day, provides a structure that is dependable and supportive to the process we are in together. Moreover, I am walking my talk; one of the keys to success in anything – relationships, communication, business building, management, kids, the health of the inner soul life – is being organized (I have tried this theory every which way and it hasn't failed me yet). Some people start out better at it than others, but everyone can learn to be so. I speak here from painful experience! It is a capacity that must be practiced regularly, and as one does so one develops this, like building a muscle but in the soul. Without organization, there can only be chaos which results in lost creativity, dis-empowerment, confusion, lost opportunities, and bad business! This would have to be the second most common feedback I get, that the structure I provide both within and between our sessions helps them find the clarity they need to make the developments and changes around which they were previously stuck.


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15 February, 2011: Christopher Cara: Thomas Cara, Ltd.
San Francisco. I made Christopher's acquaintance in 2005, when I was restoring an old espresso machine I'd picked up on eBay. As introductions go, it wasn't the smoothest of beginnings. My phone call from New Mexico apparently caught Christopher at a bad time (which I'd later learn equates to 'annoying customers in the shop'), so his shortness with my questions left me feeling frustrated, if not stranded from bringing my machine back to life.
"Hi, I tracked you down online. I believe I have an old La Cara of yours and I'm in need of parts," I said.
"You have a what?" The man's tone betrayed his annoyance, as if my dilemma was far worse for him than it could possibly be for me.
"A La Cara" I said. "Though there isn't a name anywhere to be found, a knowledgable friend of mine recognizes it. And since La Pavoni o-rings won't fit it, it can't be a Europiccola. Can you help me?"
A pregnant moment.
"If it is one of those machines, there isn't anything I can do to help you. They are extinct, and can't be serviced." He was distracted. Annoyed and distracted. "Look, I'm sorry but I have to go."
My heart sank. I'd spent nearly $150 on a beautiful chrome machine, thinking it was a rather common La Pavoni model whose vintage simply necessitated some TLC. That TLC had cost me another fifty bucks in the way of an overhaul kit I purchased from on online service outfit. Now I had little baggies of o-rings and gaskets that I couldn't use, and a burning realization that I had spent considerable time in purchasing the wrong machine and the wrong parts, and now the right man on the line was a dead end. Was I genuinely screwed? My jack-of-all-trades friend, Jerry, seemed to think the machine was an anomaly, rare indeed, and perhaps unserviceable without help from the shop that created it. And that ray of hope just hung up on me.
How could it be that in the world of lever-operated home espresso machines, where the market is dominated by La Pavoni and their fifty-year old line of Europiccolas, I would stumble upon a contraption that looked so similar I wouldn't know the difference? Granted, the lack of a label might be a flag. But come on–these machines are so specialized that obvious appearances would preclude any confusion between models. Like comparing a Dodge to a Ford to a Chevy, you can usually tell the difference.
I sat down at my kitchen table. The derelict machine was before me, its thick chromed brass a showcase of beguiling curves and planes of a simple design, it's massive form an expression of a bygone era. I was looking at the likelihood that I would never get to see the beautiful machine operate. I was looking at an artifact.
With a sigh, I fired up the Mister Coffee that I relied on for my daily espressos. It was inherited from an old girlfriend, and served as a replacement for the second DeLonghi Sorrento I'd used up in only a couple of years. Of the pump machine variety, these machines were considered 'entry level' espresso machines. As such, they were composed of plastic (for the body), a soft magnesium alloy for the hot parts (tank and portafilter holder), and decanter-carafes made of such delicate glass to necessitate a thrift store vigil for their regular replacement. While I was by no stretch a wealthy coffee drinker, I had felt justified in elevating my experience by buying a used machine of good reputation, and further, a machine in need of some work. With a price point within the boundaries of reason, my latest reality was as bitter as the Mister Coffee's double shot.
I poured some organic milk, added a dash of cane sugar and vanilla extract, and steamed it to frothy perfection. The resulting latte was far better than the Mister Coffee's espresso served neat, but herein a dilemma hounded me: how long would I continue to downgrade my steamed milk with inferior espresso?
The phone rang.
It was Christopher: "Look, I'm sorry I hung up on you. The store was busy, and it's difficult to have a conversation with people wandering around the shop."
My spirits rose, if only a little. Would he help?
"The La Caras are dinosaurs," he continued. "They were few to begin with, and haven't been sold since the seventies. I don't have parts and I can't service the machines anyway. I'm sorry you spent money on one. I hope it wasn't much."
My spirits tanked, even lower than before. It was implicit that there was more to this than was being told, and this would likely be my only chance to glean an explanation from Christopher, so I pursued it.
"I only need parts if they're exotic, and I'd be really grateful just for the parts specifications. I"m willing to do the work on my own."
"Really?" (A tone of doubt.) "Well, I don't have the specs. And I've never heard of anyone servicing one of those machines."
"What do you mean you can't service them?" I asked. "Do you mean you don't want to service them?"
There was no response. I continued: "Look, I'm really committed to restoring this, if you think it's worth it. Any help is better than none, even some advice on where to go next."
A sigh was extruded. Somewhere in San Francisco some considerations were being made.
When Christopher next spoke it was in a hushed tone. This tone carried the weight of discretion, if not implicit danger. Thus began the saga of The La Cara Espresso Machine …
Christopher Cara's father went into business in 1946. He had discovered espresso while spending a year abroad post college, but it wasn't until later, while stationed in Italy during the war, that he made the acquaintance of the Pavoni family and took on west coast distribution of their machines in the United States. Over time he sold a variety of kitchen equipment, much of which carried the 'Thomas Cara Ltd' name, often modified or even fabricated to his specifications. In the early seventies the La Cara was a lever espresso machine that was an example of this vision. There were four generations, each with subtle refinements. They were only a few– maybe 200 or 250–in each production run.
Christopher's tone got lower, as one would suggest scandal in the king's court. "Well," he emphasized, "certain manufacturers didn't like their American distributor selling a competitive machine. So an "agreement" was made with my father to stop production and support of the line.
"A cease-and-desist order?" I said.
"Essentially. Which is why we haven't touched those machines since. They're not on our radar," he said. "So I don't know what to tell you. I suppose if you have power and there's no corrosion, then you might try scrabbling together the seals at an auto parts store."
My machine was doomed. Maybe. But … maybe not. It did power up, the tank got hot, and for all intents and purposes it did seem to work. And it was very clean. All I really needed was to stop the jets of errant steam issuing forth from the many seals of the machine, which should be no more complicated than rubber o-rings and gaskets. Oh, and I needed a new sight glass; mine was cracked at the top.
With this odd history to inform my dilemma, I was ready to take up the challenge of restoration with a renewed vigor. Grateful for the sideways encouragement, I thanked Christopher and figured he may have found some entertainment from the diversion. We said our farewells.
* * * *
A year or so later I was in San Francisco with DJ. While out on a jog I stopped by the shop. It was an unannounced recon flyby. Admittedly intimidated as a newbie restorer who might fall short of industry standards, I went literally prepared to run out of there should I prove myself inadequate, or worse yet, one of the irritating class of customers Christopher had conveyed in our prior interaction.
The storefront was located at the edge of North Beach on Pacific Avenue, a narrow, boutique-y lane filled with professional firms and retail design galleries. With minimalist class in mind, it was a manicured if not pleasant side street in a desirable part of town.
Tucked discreetly behind some iron gate work on the shady side of the street, I nearly ran by the shop. Across the gate in gold letters was spelled out Thos. E. Cara, Ltd. Unlike typical store frontage, nothing grabbed my attention or even attempted to pull me in. Forget the seduction of foot traffic; clearly this was a shop for the intentional customer. Just within the gate, a sidewalk mosaic of a large copper espresso machine suggested the destination. It was a message of exclusivity, maybe even exclusion, a clue to a riddle you need to be looking to solve.
Through the window beyond the ironwork, my eye was at last drawn to an array of chrome, brass, and copper sculptures spotted by overhead track lighting. They were espresso machines of various makes and manufacture, esoteric and mysterious––H.G. Wells-ian constructs of industrial extraction.
A trim man in a white oxford shirt and dark smock was chatting with a couple in business attire. Now self conscious of my sweaty presentation, I slipped through the door. A brass entry bell announced my arrival, and a bubbly Dalmation trotted from the back of the shop to greet me. Her brown spots and white coat accessorized the crisp lines and pooled light of the modern, understated showroom.
"Lottie, you get back here." The honeyed voice Christopher used carried the authority of a lap dog owner.
I wandered about the boutique, ogling at the ornate coffee making machinery, while Christopher wrapped up the business of the young couple. From what I gathered, they were dropping off a La Pavoni for maintenance. Christopher made some notes and filled out a service tag, which he hung on the machine.
After the couple left, I introduced myself. Christopher was congenial but harried, an impeccably scruffy man with good posture, fitted clothing, and too much to do. Emanating a vibe of compelling commitments, he was nonetheless eager to hear how my restoration worked out.
I recounted the trips to various auto parts stores to wrangle the myriad o-rings in varying specifications of inner and outer diameters, made more complicated by the fact that the old o-rings I needed to replace were often too hard, brittle, and impacted to extract in a way that could be measured in the first place. It was an exercise in trial in error, with lots of hand tools and delicate maneuvering to deconstruct and reconstruct the piece. I recounted the process of having a sculptor friend cut and temper a new sight glass tube, the dimensions of which were critical. After two attempts in the kiln, the end result was a perfectly working and super clean La Cara, and most importantly, the best espresso I'd tasted.
"That's fantastic," Christopher said. He leaned against the counter and crossed his arms. He was intrigued. Maybe even impressed. "I don't know of any working La Caras anywhere. You might have the only one in existence. Do you have pictures?"
Me, have pictures? Being that I was out for a run, I did not have them on me. But on my laptop, well, there I had a series which documented the overhaul. I'd bring them by, I told him. Looking like my seal of approval was imminent, we resolved to reconvene in a day or two.
Ultimately, after a pictorial review of my effort and the difficulty of replacing the 'group' seal (an obscure chevron-shaped o-ring), I learned that a specialty tool (ie., a homemade one) was needed to make the process foolproof and to avoid damaging the piston. Christopher opened a drawer at his work bench and casually produced said tool––basically a brass tube with opposing notches at one end. He tipped over a Pavoni that was in the process of an overhaul, and inserted the tube up into the sleeve of the cylindrical group. He demonstrated the locking effect of the notches around something up in there, and then gave it a wrench-assisted turn. The piston dropped right out.
"Damn," I said. "That sure beats pounding the hell out of the top of the piston with a rubber mallet."
"Trade secret," he said. "You'll want one of these sleeve tools for your next overhaul. The dimensions should match, if you want to take some measurements."
Christopher opened a door and disappeared down an old stairwell. I took the opportunity to take measurements and sketched specs for The Tool. I figured my buddy Jerry should be able to fabricate such a doohickey easy enough. He'd want one for his old Pavoni, anyway.
As I finished up my armchair schematic, Christopher returned from the depths bearing a familiar relic of a bygone era. He set it down on the bench before me. Coated in dust and wearing a decrepit service tag was another misfit La Cara. It was nearly identical to my own, but bore a monikered label on the front of the base.
"No telling how long this has been down there," he said. Indeed, the ink on the service tag had faded from existence. It was now anonymous, forgotten in time. I rubbed at the dust, and the chrome beneath seemed in decent shape.
"Wow, it's beautiful." I was inspired. "Don't you just want to … Bring it back to life?"
"For what?" he said. "I couldn't sell it. I can't sell it."
"Use it, then."
"Look around," he said. "I'm surrounded by Porsches and Lamborghinis–and they work just fine. I'm not sure the effort would be worth it, as I know you can relate."
Fair enough. It occurred to me that my restoration had become an obsession. I couldn't blame Christopher for not being as enthused as I, even if the machine did carry his namesake. I mean, if someone someone showed up on my doorstep with a vintage Pfaff sewing machine they'd fixed, would the course of my life be forever altered? Lineage be damned, probably not.
But that hardly quieted my imagination. "So Christopher, what other goodies do you have in the basement?"
He laughed. I might have asked him what skeletons he had in his closet, the way he looked at me.
"Wouldn't you like to know."
The dusty La Cara went up on a shelf. At least it was liberated from the basement.
As a thanks to Christopher for his time, I bought a snazzy 60th anniversary wooden knock box emblazoned with the Thomas Cara Ltd name. It would complete my barista set up, and serve as a functional souvenir of the occasion. We shared a laugh, and made an intention to stay in touch.
Over the next couple of years I popped in on Christopher to say hello, once to buy some quality cappuccino cups and saucers. I was pleased to report a profound reliability with my machine. I had yet to need (and therefore make) the group tool, as I had required minimal maintenance to keep things humming. I loved my espresso machine, and had grown as faithful to it as it was to me. This was was emphasized by the comparisons I was making with contemporary lever machines in the La Cara's class, notably late model designs being manufactured with standardized parts. It became clear that, while shiny and new and with a handy warrantee, the machines of recent years were not up to the build standards of the vintage machines.
Coincidentally, during this period of time, my insider buddy Jerry had taken up a hobby of doing his own restorations on the vintage Pavonis previously mentioned. Being that Jerry brought the skill set of mechanic to this endeavor, as well as espresso knowledge gleaned from his entrepreneur period in the pre-Starbucks days of Seattle, I was provided a unique opportunity to experience firsthand the pros and cons of the oeuvre. If there's a summary of my impressions from the experience, it's a return to this handy euphemism: They don't make 'em like they used to. A concise history of the Europiccola line and examples of the vintage best can be appreciated at Jerry's retail site: http://goyathlaysvintagepavonirestorations.com/.
* * * *
I thought Christopher's trade a stretch for the Journeyman Project until I experienced the bench-top environment where an artisan's attention to craft informs his job. On a macro level, the culture of coffee is undeniably elevated by the micro pursuit of extraction. It doesn't hurt that the exotic machines and specialized individuals who build and maintain them are an intriguing lot. So it came to pass that I asked Christopher for a visit to take his photograph and learn more about the history of the family business. If I was lucky, I figured I might even get a look in the basement.
"We've been in North Beach from the start," Christopher says. "My dad opened the store in 1946 at Grant and Green, for $35 a month. In the early fifties he moved to Broadway and Columbus, where there were tunnels in the basement going back to the Chinatown opium trade. I remember working there as a kid, down in that basement drilling holes for pressure gauges in the old Atomic machines." Christopher laughs. "I'd thread them crooked, and Dad would sell them in the shop as more artistic."
"In 1960 my parents moved the business here."
To say that San Francisco real estate is desirable is an understatement. In North Beach it is more so, where the majority of the neighborhood is historic.
"The best thing my parents ever did was buy this building. My father resisted, of course. But my mother, Mary, made him."
While we're talking, I notice some professional types use the outside stairwell to the upper floor. "And you lease the upstairs," I posit.
"Sure," Christopher says. "It would be a challenge to keep the shop in the neighborhood otherwise."
Growing up in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, he recalls a respectable but modest lifestyle, not of luxury per se, but with exposure to the elite class. "Rather similar to The Merchant of Venice," as Christopher puts it. "A life of privileged access."
Indeed, Christopher has lived a theatrical if not dramatic life. Act One includes his education at the University of San Francisco and the American Conservatory Theatre, followed by a wild decade in 1970's New York City living the Broadway dream. Act Two finds Christopher the Prodigal Son returning home to begin work at the family business. His older brother John joins the clan a few years later, reuniting the Cara family under one commercial roof. In 2002 Mary dies suddenly of cancer, followed by Roberto, Christopher's partner of twelve years. Thomas–ironically, Mary's senior by 13 years–dies in 2004. In a critical time for the shop, Christopher buys out his brother's share of the business.
Act Three is unfolding daily. Our leading man maintains a conscious existence, navigating the business which bares his namesake while aspiring to the bon vivant.
Christopher is coy. Especially when he says "Things are quiet now, but not stagnant."
He is one of those guys that is older than he looks, knows it, and is protective of the data. I respect that, especially when this person seems to understand some fundamental concepts of quality of life: Keep it simple; seek authenticity; take nothing for granted; do your best; use it or lose it; keep moving. For instance, today is his weekly Italian lesson. Surely this is a work necessity. Right?
"You need to speak Italian with the Pavoni and Zacconi folks," I presume.
"Ha! My salary isn't great, but the perks are worth it. I travel to New York and Italy every year (for manufacturer-distributor meetings). The best coffee in the world is at Café Eustachio, in Roma. And there is only one Broadway. I enjoy the world. This arrangement suits me."
I believe I can relate. I relish travel, and meeting people in the context of their real life. I'd rather experience a new place through eyes of purpose, with an objective that comes with an assignment.
Christopher methodically prepares the afternoon meal for Carlotta (named, by the way, after Eugene O'Neil's wife's stage name). He is interrupted, yet again, by another phone call. As I wait for Christopher's question-and-answer protocol to play out, I envision myself on the other end of the line. Customers typically know enough about their machine to make their needs known, but when it comes to conceptualizing the work required to stop the leaks or restore power to their daily drinker, they are often quite clueless. Christopher must explain, in plain language, what the fix is (or not, as the case may be, for those particularly difficult customers). For a one man show, this aspect of the business must be a drain. Being his own boss likely gives Christopher vital leeway and, ultimately, relief in dealing with difficult clientele.
I wonder about the fate of the family business. By retail stats alone, Thomas Cara Ltd. has a future–if not a legacy–ahead of it: Deriving 40% of revenue from sales and 60% from machine service, the espresso machine emporium has a 50% return rate of repeat customers, many of which are 3rd generation. The annual revenue growth is 4%, far better than our country's GDP.
After Carlotta is fed, I implore Christopher to show me the mysterious basement from whence came the old La Cara, as well as all the spare parts he relies on for repairs. Reluctant at first, I assure him I didn't come all this way to photograph his basement. Thus, he acquiesces.
If the shop is Christopher's proscenium, then the basement is his backstage. Packed with bins and boxes of parts, espresso machines in states of disrepair, and cobwebs worthy of a horror film, the space (or lack thereof) is spectacular. The place also serves as storage for decades of family memories, many of which are neglected. It doesn't take long before Christopher's having some fun, and yes, I'm shooting it all. As evidenced by yellowed scrapbooks of the family business, it's clear that someone valued the family legacy. Christopher is distracted now, pulled in by artifacts. He vows to clean the place up, get the memorabilia organized.
After the adventure that is the basement, we make our way back upstairs to one of Christopher's 'Lamborghinis' for what I hope will be a lesson in the finer points of espresso making. Christopher first grinds up some beans in his Bunn mega burr grinder, and we head over to the top-of-the-line Vibiemme pump machine that's hard-lined into the shop's plumbing.
What transpires is a rather snappy and anticlimactic demonstration, as if really, I should know better: "Make sure your grind is fresh. Not too fine, not too coarse;" after which wise words the grounds go into the portafilter and are tamped, the portafilter goes into the portafilter holder, the portafilter holder into the group head and is tightened, the demitasse set into position below. The sequence culminates in the pushing of an electronic button.
This last bit is the fundamental difference between lever and pump machines. Whereas the pump machine requires no piston and releases its pressurized hot water with the press of a button, the lever machine requires the manual exertion of your arm to control the piston-driven rate of release. In both cases, hot water is subsequently pressed through the group shower head into the portafilter basket packed with your grind, and exits as espresso into the demitasse (small cup) which awaits.
The resulting syrup begins with a trickle, then a delicate stream. A perfect 'pull' yields a viscous two ounces of espresso with a silky top layer of crema. The pull should take roughly twenty seconds. The time is a subjective but useful gauge of your grind's consistency and degree of tamp. To the casual observer, the process is akin to ceremony. I've noticed that the moment of espresso release usually results in a peculiar silence, providing a unique opportunity for meditation or productive thinking; your mileage may vary.
"Look, I'm fortunate" he says. "I've inherited the silver, and I haven't had to hock it." Christopher views the shop as a continuation of his family, and with that comes obligation. The business provides him freedom, yes, but it also represents a necessary grounding. There is a legacy in place here. "This place keeps me focused and honest," he says.
The espresso we share is pretty perfect. I've opted for no sugar to really 'test the quality.' Christopher rolls his eyes and adds a teaspoon to his own.
"Is it true," I ask, "that some people will do two pulls through the same grind?"
"Sure," Christopher says, in a rather nonchalant way. "For many, one pull is a waste of grind. And time, of course."
Now, I personally never do two pulls from the same grind. I think the second one takes on a comparative bitterness.
"Oh, get a life!" Christopher says.
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Thomas Cara Ltd. does not have a web site because, as Christopher proclaims, "it is an old fashioned business." Christopher can be reached via email, however he will not diagnose or advise on your machine's ills with such discourse. For that, you're best using the ol' telephone.
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Czwarty czwartek listopada to szczególny dzień dla mieszkańców USA: w tym dniu całe Stany, niezależnie od poglądów i przekonań religijnych obchodzą Święto Dziękczynienia czyli Thanksgiving. Historia tego święta wiąże się z początkami osadnictwa europejskiego w Ameryce, kiedy grupa Purytan w poszukiwaniu lepszego życia i swobód religijnych wyruszyła za ocean i przetrwała pierwszą zimę na obcej ziemi, co było nie lada wyzwaniem. Więcej ciekawostek na ten temat znajdziecie w naszym artykule o historii tego święta.
Thanksgiving Day in the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. It is a day when Americans give thanks for all the blessings received during the year and honour the early settlers and their first harvest feast. The holiday started in New England and it dates back to 1621 – the year after the Pilgrims arrived in North America. In 1620, the Pilgrims left Plymouth in England on a ship called the Mayflower. The ship's 102 passengers were religious separatists looking for a new home in America, where they could practice their religion freely. On December 11, 1620, after 66 days at sea, the Pilgrims reached a place in North America which they called Plymouth Rock. The first winter was very difficult for the settlers. They had little food, many of them got sick and about half of them died before spring. The survivors turned for help to the local Indians, who were very friendly and taught the settlers how to build shelters, hunt and catch fish, plant corn, pumpkin and other crops. Things got better for the Pilgrims in 1621 when the harvest turned out to be abundant and so they decided to celebrate and give thanks to God. In the fall of 1621, the Plymouth colonists invited the Indians to their harvest feast, which lasted for three days. The custom of celebrating Thanksgiving soon spread from Plymouth to other New England colonies, and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. In many American households today, Thanksgiving is mainly a family celebration. Traditional Thanksgiving food usually includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. It is estimated that about 46 million turkeys are killed in the United States each year for Thanksgiving. Interestingly, since the first half of the 20th century, presidents of the United States have 'pardoned' or saved the life of one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sending the birds to a farm for retirement.


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Recall our brief discussion of President Bush's Executive Order 13422, and the corresponding New York Times article, Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation. A few days after he was inaugurated, President Obama issued Executive Order 13497, which in one fell swoop revoked two prior Executive Orders that beefed up regulatory review (the 2002 EO from President Bush, and a 1993 EO from President Clinton). But, President Obama didn't simply revoke these policies; he ordered the OMB to reevaluate how it reviews agency regulations and identify the best way to do it. The OMB then requested public comments, and as you can see, received a lot of them.
What do you think about the back-and-forth between administrations? How much immediate oversight should the President and OMB exercise over agency regulations?


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The Ongoing Child Bipolar Diagnosis Controversy
As we and others reported last month, a very early diagnosis of bipolar disorder was one of the probable factors that led to a young child's death. I'm sorry, but unless it's an extreme exception, adult diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are not recognized in children at 2 or even 3 years old. Children at such young ages are under active, constantly-changing development. There are no widely-accepted, legitimate diagnostic criteria for children generally under 12 for bipolar disorder.
So we were happy to see Furious Seasons write up John McManamy's take on this issue today.
But one of the challenges of bloggers and folks trying to make heads or tails of this issue is not spending the time (or perhaps have the access to the resources) to critically look at the research. A full-scale literature review takes a lot of effort, even for a trained professional. So I'll take an outsider's crack at this topic in more detail here, because I do have access to the resources and some key journal articles that shed light on bipolar disorder in children.
I look for two things in the literature when I want to get up to speed on an area of interest to me. I look for literature reviews and meta-analyses. These overview articles, when appearing in a peer-reviewed journal, offer non-expects like myself a critical 10,000 foot view of the sub-field.
The first such lit review I found was Geller and Luby (1997). Their reference list alone included more than 8 dozen citations to studies mentioned in their article. This article clearly shows empirical support for a syndrome similar to adult bipolar disorder in children, but in 1997, there was still not agreed-upon diagnostic criteria for this phemenon. So while many researchers were writing about children who showed symptoms similar to that of adult bipolar disorder, nobody had done any of the foundational work to say, "This is indeed childhood bipolar disorder and these are its symptoms." The authors also noted that, as of 1997, there was only one completed, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of any medication for child or adolescent mania. That's just 10 years ago.
Jumping ahead eight years later, though, for the most recent meta-analysis on this topic, and we still see no clear, agreed-upon diagnostic criteria in Kowatch et al.'s 2005 study. While the study suggested a set of criteria based upon its data analysis, these criteria (like most research) are likely not widely known or disseminated amongst clinicians.
I think the most telling result of the past decade's worth of further research into this issue comes from Pavuluri et al's 2005 conclusions:
Considerable advances have been made in our knowledge of pediatric bipolar disorder (BD); however, differing viewpoints on the clinical presentation of BD in children are the rule [emphasis added]. Phenomenological and longitudinal studies and biological validation using genetic, neurochemical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging methods may strengthen our understanding of the phenocopy. Randomized, controlled treatment studies for the acute and maintenance treatment of BD disorder are warranted.
They also noted,
Combination pharmacotherapies appear promising, and the field awaits further short- and long-term randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the use of any pharmcological treatment for the treatment of bipolar disorder in children, now is it?
More recent studies, such as Singh et al.'s 2006 literature review, also illustrate the complex interaction between ADHD and bipolar diagnoses — that making a bipolar disorder diagnosis without taking into account ADHD as a differential can lead to misdiagnosis.
The key here is that while clinicians and researchers agree that some form of bipolar disorder seems to exist within children and adolescents, virtually nothing is agreed upon when it comes to the form, nature and treatment of that disorder. Clinicians are out there doing what they normally do — doing the best they can with the presenting problems of clients (or their parents), while researchers are coming at the issue from a dozen different angles.
Seeing it from this light, we can understand the confusion and lack of practice guidelines in this area. But as a clinician, when confronted with such a challenging area as this, I would think most would err on the side of being fairly conservative in their treatment. Especially of a child. And especially of a very, very young child with powerful psychopharmacological treatments that have only small amounts of empirical support at present (with absolutely no long-term, logitudinal studies done on children to ensure these medications don't have serious, long-term detrimental developmental side effects).
Cheng-Shannon et al. (2004) said it best when it comes to prescribing powerful antipsychotic medications in children and adolescents —
Although these medications appear to be well tolerated in short-term studies, long-term follow-up investigations and ongoing clinical monitoring are necessary to confirm their safety in this age group.
Cheng-Shannon, J. et al. Second-Generation Antipsychotic Medications in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Vol 14(3), Fal 2004. pp. 372-394.
Geller, B. and Luby, J. "Child and adolescent bipolar disorder: a review of the past 10 years." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36.n9 (Sept 1997): 1168(9).
Kowatch, R.A. et al. Review and meta-analysis of the phenomenology and clinical characteristics of mania in children and adolescents. Bipolar Disorders, Vol 7(6), Dec 2005. pp. 483-496.
Pavuluri, M.N. et al. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: A Review of the Past 10 Years. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol 44(9), Sep 2005. pp. 846-871.
Singh, M. et al. Co-occurrence of bipolar and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders in children. Bipolar Disorders, Vol 8(6), Dec 2006. pp. 710-720.
Grohol, J. (2018). The Ongoing Child Bipolar Diagnosis Controversy. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 25, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-ongoing-child-bipolar-diagnosis-controversy/
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 8 Jul 2018
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In the soft dawn of a New Year, a sweet sound will steal your heart
The Sunbird. Pix courtesy J.F.R.De Fonseka
Says FOGSL, there's no better way to see in the New Year than by listening to our birds singing their dawn chorus, but if January 1 is disturbed by the sounds of crackers and you are feeling too sleepy from late-night partying to wake up in time to hear the birds, select any day of the first week of 2014 and listen to nature's symphony to remind yourself of the need to be closer to nature.
If you listen to the dawn chorus in your area regularly you will notice changes in the melody as some birds intensify their singing during the breeding season. The best example is the well-known songster, the Asian Koel (koha), who starts singing its beautiful song to attract its mate around April.
The Oriental Magpie Robin (polkichcha) is another common songster that enriches the dawn chorus by singing from the highest point in the area. The birds start the day around 4:30-5 a.m. Get up early before sunrise and keep listening!
Oriental Magpie Robin
Oriental Magpie Robin – A common songster in our home gardens
The Spotted Dove
published on SundayTimes on 29.12.2013 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/131229/news/in-the-soft-dawn-of-a-new-year-a-sweet-sound-will-steal-your-heart-78041.html


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Student's door sensor makes dorm life a lot like a 'Seinfeld' episode
While we're all living in 2017, this dude's still living in the early '90s.
A Northern Arizona University student named Evan made huge strides in the advancement of door technology by creating a goofy door sensor for his dorm. He tweeted it out on Oct. 3, and the world hasn't been the same since.
SEE ALSO: We unboxed a tiny 'Seinfeld' set
I build a door sensor for my dorm pic.twitter.com/veNXFobzPC
— evan🐸 (@earth2evn) October 3, 2017
Upon entry, the sensor automatically plays a goofy bass line reminiscent of the Seinfeld theme song.
That's right, go ahead and feel like Jerry when the Elaines, Georges, and Kramers of your life walk right in.
Although, if I had to build a sensor for my door, it would probably play the theme song from The Golden Girls. But that's just me.


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Swim, surf and boogie board or splash about in the shallows with the little ones.
Get your head into a good book as you relax in the sun, build sandcastles or have a game of beach cricket. It's a good life, and all here for the taking when you stay with us at Cosy Corner.
Walk across the road to peaceful Omanu Beach or drive 5 minutes to Mount Main Beach which is a bustling vibrant place to see and be seen, especially during summer months. There are beachfront cafes, and the towering Mount Maunganui offers excellent walks around its base or to its summit for stunning views.
Mount Maunganui Main Beach is blessed to have a surf beach on one side and a calm harbour (Pilot Bay) on the other (just a few hundred metres apart!). Pilot Bay is a great spot for kayaking, swimming and even fishing off one of the jetties.
Volunteer surf lifesaving clubs operate over the summer season at Mount Main Beach, at Omanu Beach (a quick stroll from Cosy Corner) and further down the coast at Papamoa Beach (a ten minute drive from Cosy Corner).
You may choose to swim between the surf lifesaving flags here for the safety that this offers.


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The restaurant discovery app Zomato, which now operates in 22 countries globally, has recently been lampooned for their experimentation with their logo. When the company acquired the much larger Urbanspoon in the US, it adopted the acquired company's logo, to prevent app uninstalls. But many users in India said they saw a sperm rather than a spoon in the Urbanspoon logo. Company's whizkid CEO Deepinder Goyal was asked this during his roller-coaster AMA on Reddit India as well.
Amazon India decided to taunt Zomato a bit, using this background and pegging it to their new catchy #AurDikhao campaign. Zomato came back with a pitch-perfect response.
Contact HuffPost India


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The days of long shadows are back. It's dark by 8.30 p.m.
The fire is back on in the cottage.
It's the time of year to find the warmest place by the fire and stay there.
If you move, your going to have a hard job getting back in the same spot.
Isn't that right Frank ?
Freya Rose Blossom is over at Cat flap Cavalier. as usual.


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When it comes to handling databases and the complexities around them, the best way to go is with an expert database administrator.
Such an expert will offer you the best solution in terms of the best database software to use for your kind of business, the best user interface for you to make data entry easier, and the most affordable solution for you that fits within your budget.
This expert also has a deep understanding of the different types of databases and database solutions. They know how servers work when storing information and data, how websites are indexed by the search engines, and even how to integrate the different database management software with a client's website for ease of access and use.
To top it all, these database management experts come in all forms and shapes, but the best of them all is the remote DBA expert. This is the individual, or company, that offers database management solutions remotely to multiple clients. Unlike an in-house database administrator who only works for one company, and who is most likely an expert in just a single database solution, these remote service providers are independent and thus equip themselves with skills and expertise in a variety of database management solutions. They are thus the best at offering custom and affordable solutions for your business.
Whether you are looking for someone to help you with your XML or SQL databases, your best bet is to work with a reputable remote DBA. A good example of such a firm that offers these remote services is http://remotedba.com. Below are some more reasons why these types of database admins who work remotely are the best for your business.
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Cost Effective
Remote DBA experts are very affordable if you compare their rates with what an in-house database admin will get paid per year. They also offer more value in terms of the service they provide since they will give you a complete solution to your database management problems in one package. An in-house admin, on the other hand, may request that you hire an outside expert to handle some of the database problems that may challenge them.
The remote database management experts work fast to deliver the desired results. This is because they are well equipped with the latest technology solutions for database management and their sole job is to manage databases. They are highly skilled in this area making the job a breeze to them.
An in-house database administrator may get distracted within the office by being called into meetings, being told to assist others within the company, and even being told to help in other departments outside his job description. This leaves them very distracted. With remote DBAs, they only focus on one thing; managing your databases.
This group of experts has no hidden interests in your business, unlike an in-house database administrator. They thus uphold the highest level of privacy for your data and can be relied upon to never divulge any company secrets out there.


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CollectiveAccess is open-source collections management and presentation software designed for museums, archives, and special collections also increasingly used by libraries, corporations and non-profits. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. The software is freely available under the open source GNU Public License, meaning it's not only free to download and use but that users are encouraged to share and distribute code.
CollectiveAccess is a web-based suite of applications providing a framework for cataloging and discovery. The two main components of CollectiveAccess are Providence, a "back-end" cataloging interface, and Pawtucket, a "front-end" publication and discovery platform. Both components are available on Github or can be downloaded from the downloads page. When you are ready to install your CollectiveAccess system on a web host (or local server with a web environment), be sure to check out the list of System Requirements. Installation instructions are also available on the Wiki.
CollectiveAccess is a fully configurable software, so you will need to tell it what metadata fields you require for your project when you install it. If you are starting a new system, check out the Configuration Library for metadata schemas that are freely available for download. You can also choose from archive and library standards that come pre-installed with Providence. All metadata profiles used in Providence are written using XML, and it is easy to create your own by following the guide to Installation Profiles. You can always change your metadata configuration later by using the software's intuitive UI tools or by installing a partial profile. However, if you are embarking on a large cataloging project, it is generally advised to determine most of your metadata needs at the start of a project in order to prevent the need for recataloguing later on.
Once Providence is installed, you can use a variety of tools to import any existing data you might have. This includes batch uploading media through the media importer, creating import scripts, or using the batch editor to edit metadata for a set of shell records all at once.
Additional configuration options include setting up Advanced Search fields, Browse categories, and Access Roles for your users. Access restrictions can be configured for individual or groups of logins on the field, record, or record type level. If you wish to extend your installation of Providence, you may do so by enabling plugins, or writing your own.
If you would like to create a read-only interface for your archive, whether for a public website or for internal users on your network, you can do so by installing Pawtucket. Pawtucket is a browseable front-end that allows you to search and browse items in your collection that you have made accessible through Providence. Pawtucket respects any access restrictions you have set in Providence, and can be password protected for additional security.
The default Pawtucket theme is a plain bootstrap-based design that you can customize to your liking as you would any other open source web tool. Check out our theming guide for help implementing your institution's design. You can also configure custom Advanced Search forms, tools to solicit User Contributions (croudsourcing), and Browse options. As with Providence, you can extend Pawtucket by writing plugins, or enabling any of the plugins that come pre-installed with the software, such as Finding Aids. To see what others have done with Pawtucket, check out our Featured Projects page!


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Greetings, one and all, and welcome again to The Blue Strand.
We have had a wonderful start to our new year, already seeing a new Baronial Champion become likely.
I have been attempting to collect the history of the Barony of Krae Glas. Although our history is short, we have already taken our place in it. We have secured the very significant role of hosting The Twelfth Night in 2013, not to mention the many other events, like Suth Moot that will set our Barony apart.
An accurate history requires an accurate place to store it. As such I have created an archive, in the form of a new email address.
Any business with the Chronicler will be stored at firstname.lastname@example.com, ensuring that future generations will have the records they need, in an easy to find place.
Without further ado, I give you the first edition of The Blue Strand for 2012.
The Blue Strand Issue 2012-1 January 2012
Veronica Bellini
Krae Glas Chronicler


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Julie Maree Wood is an Australian naturopath and nutritionist who has dedicated her life to helping others feel more healthy, happy and alive.
The 4 Week Energy Diet should be called 4 Weeks for an Energy Lifestyle. It combines food for fuel with lifestyle factors of time and space to help you to maintain your optimal energy throughout your days. There's a big emphasis on getting enough sleep and ensuring you're eating the right foods to give your body the best sources of energy.
Julie has a wonderful holistic approach to health and she says, "Your diet is everything in the world that nourishes you or feeds you." We take in an enormous amount of information every day. It's essential to ensure our bodies and minds are getting the material they need to perform their best.
Julie explains how there are 5 types of energy we need to maintain: Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Vital and Physical. We need to listen to our bodies and minds and take note of what makes us feel lively or lethargic. Then we need to work to nourish our souls with things that make us feel energised.
Eating Plan
The 'diet' starts off with two weeks of cleansing so that your organs are recharged. The two weeks focus on cleansing your liver and bowels – two of our greatest organs which processing energy. Weeks three and four have a focus on implementing sustainable positive changes in your diet and lifestyle which make for an easy transition into healthy living. Here are some recipes from the book.
Main Sections
The menu section is packed with easy recipes including traditional mains, breakfasts, lunches as well as snacks, deserts, teas and other drinks.
One of my favourite recipes was the Ice Cream. Julie suggests making delicious homemade ice cream with banana and lemon juice. Just two ingredients are all you need to create a creamy sweet snack. Banana ice cream is extremely easy to make and you can blend almost any frozen fruit.
Bonus Material
This book is fantastic as although there is a full eating and exercise plan that you can follow, there are easy implementable tips throughout the book to improve your mind, body and soul. These tips include:
- 10 Foods to Boost Energy
- 10 Ways to Boost Brain Energy
- 10 Energy Boosting Supplements
- Tips for Beginning Meditating
- Little extra gems like putting a note by your desk saying "breathe and relax"
There is a comprehensive section on meditation which is extremely helpful for beginners. There's a FAQ section where Julie answered the question, can I skip the section on meditation if I can't meditate? Julie explained that she gets these kind of questions and comments from almost everyone who comes to her health clinic. She emphasises that our busy minds simply need time to relax and recharge. Quiet time or learning to be peaceful or learning to meditation can do this for you. Anyone can meditation at any time. Find somewhere quiet and focus on your breathing for a few minutes and let thoughts come and go.
Julie Maree Wood
Julie is a naturopath in Sydney. The 4 Week Energy Diet was written for busy people who want to make simple adjustments in their lives for better health. Julie has delivered with this book. You can read an extract here. Check out The 4 Week Energy Diet on Booktopia where you can see photograph extracts from the book.
- Do you think you get enough sleep?
- Do you focus on the value of energy that you get from your foods?
- How do you ensure your environment feeds you with energy?


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Nicole Appleton wasn't about to let her divorce ruin her 39th birthday - and she proved it by dying her hair pink and celebrating with A LOT of celebrity friends.
The All Saints singer stunned in tiny black frilly hotpants and a matching top, and looked over the moon to be celebrating with her guests.
And who wouldn't be, looking at this guest list.
Joining her on Saturday evening were big names Holly Willoughby, Myleene Klass, Emma Bunton and Keith Lemon.
The crowd packed into Gilgamesh restaurant and club in Camden, London, and you wouldn't have known the birthday girl had recently begun divorce proceedings with husband Liam Gallagher looking at her happy face.
The radiant beauty beamed to the camera as she climbed out of her taxi with former band mate Melanie Blatt.
Nicole was inundated with birthday messages on Twitter on the day, and she responded: "Big thanks for all my birthday wishes....it really means a lot."
But not enough to take her own cake home - as classical princess Myleene later tweeted a snap of her teeny tiny cake - which she had snaffled.
Her sister Natalie Howlett, 40, arrived with husband Liam Howlett to support the popular singer.
Natalie and Nicole have announced five All Saints performances next year as they support the Backstreet Boys on their European Tour.
They will be reunited with their former bandmates Shaznay Lewis and Melanie Blatt for the first time in eight years - so that should help take her mind off Liam at least.
A source told the Mirror: "It's been a horrendous year for Nicole and the only thing that has kept her going is her friends and family rallying around her.
"It will be great for her to focus on rehearsals with All Saints and to be singing and dancing again. Getting back together with the band that made her famous will be a really positive experience for her."


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Here is an interesting metaphor I learned recently that I would like to share with you. I am always on the lookout for symbols that can serve to remind me of my goal of living the most amazing life I can. I like coffee. Ok that last statement could be a slight understatement. Frequently I find myself at Starbucks either working on my book or even composing some of these posts. Now before I get to my next point I have to address the voice of my good friend Kim in the back of my head saying "I don't drink coffee". Trust me this could work just as well with a diet Coke. Next time you get a cup of coffee, or whatever it is you care to consume, think of it as your mind. Now while waiting in line at the coffee shop I have heard some VERY specific things people like, and do not like in their coffee. Funny thing is these same people are not nearly as careful as to what they put in their minds. We must be diligent as to what we let in and keep out of our thoughts on a daily basis. If we happen to leave this up to chance what will we be greeted with? I can only share this with you. I watched the news to try to catch the weather a few nights ago. What I saw will seem like an exaggeration, but it was the honest truth. In the first 5 minutes of the news I heard of 3 homicides and 2 house fires, one that took the life of a young woman. Never did make it to the weather. It is not only the media we have to look out for, even some of our closest friends and family. Sounds pretty mean at first blush, but let me explain it using the coffee method. If a complete stranger walks up and puts some poison in your coffee what will happen? Answer, you will die. Now let's say your closest friend, even on accident spills some of that same poison in your coffee what will happen? Same result, you will die. Now this may sound extreme, but that is exactly what negative thoughts are to a healthy mind, poison. How many times have you had lunch with a friend who happened to be having a bad day and proceeded to tell you how bad the government is, how the economy is on the verge of collapse and other such inspiring thoughts. You may very well end up leaving lunch at the very least a little less inspired. The flip side of this is we must not poison anyone else's coffee. Before you start venting all of your negative beliefs on your friends, family or co-workers, look them in the eye and ask yourself "would I want to poison this person?" because that is what you are doing to their mind. So when you get your next latte from Starbucks, or your next diet Coke from the vending machine, stop and think about what you would let somebody put in there. Let it serve as a great reminder to watch your own thoughts, feelings and emotions. Watch your own coffee.
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A bartender and Postal worker by trade I was witness to the overwhelming negativity that is so common in todays society. A firm believer in the motto "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness" I created this site to bring some of the positivity back into the world and share with otheres. View all posts by drrock00