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Thursday, 28 June 2007
Just Jeans
It's probably part of my culture but I have pretty well always worn, and enjoyed wearing, jeans.
I set off today to buy a new pair as my 'normal' ones had become fairy grubby from house and garden work.
I am not a complicated sort of person. At least, not when it comes to jeans.
In a basic sort of colour:
Being a loyal, return shopper, my first point of call was here, my 'normal' store:
The shop assistant says "504, 38, 34...no, we don't carry 34 legs anymore."
"Oh" says I, "That's a pity, 34 legs carry me."
"If you try Just Jeans they MIGHT match our price." $99.95.
So I went to Just Jeans:
The same jeans were priced at $99.00. I didn't ask them to match the price.
Having found the jeans, I bought two pair. As one does.
"Do I want to join the Just Jeans Club" asked the girl behind the counter. She ran off various benefits but the one that most struck home was that I was just two points away from a $10 gift voucher. OK, it would cost me $5 to join but they at least they stocked jeans that fit me.
"OK, why not?" say I and the girl put the transaction through on my credit card.
The machine spat out the normal docket and then a second docket. The girl's face went into shock and then she started jumping up and down. Apparently I had just won a free pair of Levi Jeans!
The manager was called, smiles all round, and I left with my free jeans voucher.
Margaret has already laid claim to that.
As I left, I looked back into the store. The manager and the shop girl were holding hands and dancing a jig. I guess there must have been a store prize too.
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Monday, 25 June 2007
Not quite glow-mesh but close.
Yesterday (Sunday) was Martin's 25th birthday. The previous night he and some mates had a party to celebrate the occasion and he had wanted a 'mirror suit' to wear for the night. Above is the result of Margaret and him spending a fair slab of Friday afternoon with sewing machine and mouths full of pins. A little cursing and swearing on occasion, too. (Although Margaret's idea of a fully fledged expletive is "Auchtermuchty!").
Some have argued that it was the nicest birthday suit since the original one.
The actual birthday was thrown into some disarray by Martin's girlfriend, Roni, landing in hospital in intensive care with a urinary tract infection of some sort. She's on the mend, happily, although still in intensive care.
After some will-we wont-we discussions we pressed on with the family dinner. I chose an Indian theme, partly because we hadn't eaten Indian for a while, partly because I had spent my 25th birthday at Agra, in India, admiring the Taj Mahal.
Pappadums as pre-meal nibblies,
Spicey prawns with a walnut chutney as starter,
Lamb & eggplant curry with tomato salad and basmati rice for main,
Cumquat & cardamon syrup cake with yoghurt for dessert.
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Sunday, 24 June 2007
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Saturday, 23 June 2007
Children, don't try this at home!
Well, that was exciting!
I had been charged with the job of getting old, melted candles out of a glass holder. The sort of holder where you take a coloured tea-light candle out of its aluminium cup and put the candle on its own in the glass container so you can see the coloured wax as it burns. The time had come to clean the glasses in preparation for some new candles.
My thought was if I sat the container in some hot water the candle may release from the glass and make cleaning easy. But the quality of the glass is unknown; what if the water was too hot and it cracked the glass? Yes, I know the candles make the glass hot but it is a gradual process.
OK, thinks me, I will stand the candle in a bowl of water and microwave it. That way the water will warm slowly and all will be fine.
Did you know that the wicks of tea-candles will ignite in a microwave?
I didn't.
I do now. Very pretty it was.
On reflection I should have guessed. Many moons ago, at work, we were testing candle wicks for their lead content. Apparently some manufactures would put a thin filament of lead in the candle wick and there was concern at the time about airborne lead from burning candles. Other manufacturers used zinc. The idea was that the metal gave the wick some rigidity so it would remain upright when all the wax in the container melted.
So, there you go. Children! Don't microwave your candles!
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Friday, 22 June 2007
More warp than weft.
We were having an end of semester drink at Uni today and somehow the conversation found its way around to spiders and what happens to their webs under the influence of drugs. Well, we are psychology students, do you expect us to talk about football? Anyway, caffeine was the 'drug' of interest but the graphics above list a few others as well.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007
How high?
A little mathematical nonsense to see me past tomorrow's exam.
The Earth, lovely thing that it is, is 24,880 miles (40,041km) in circumference.
That's 131,369,652 feet.
Now, imagine a ribbon going right around the earth, fitting neatly to the surface. (Yes, I know all about the mountains, valleys, trees and stuff. Just imagine it for the moment and forget the lumpy bits.). So this ribbon is 131,369,652 feet long.
Now, lets cut the ribbon and put in one more foot of ribbon and then go around and make sure the new ribbon is evenly adjusted around the globe. 131,369,653 feet of ribbon.
How far away from the surface will this ribbon be?
Can you see light between the ground and the ribbon?
Can you slip a piece of paper between them?
How about a cockroach passing through the gap? A mouse? A cat? A goat?
Answer tomorrow in the comments section.
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Monday, 18 June 2007
It is winter here and the trees are still in the process of losing their leaves. I try to rake as seldom as possible, not because I am lazy, but because I love the pools of colour that fall around the trees. The Japanese maples shed orange and red, the apricot and quince yellow. A neighbour's tree, a tree camelia I think, drops white and yellow 'poached eggs' on out driveway.
I think of Monet when the garden is like this, the whole palette of colours, daubed seemingly at random, and yet so properly, across the ground.
And there, in the leaf mulch below, the new season is already stirring.
I think of Monet when the garden is like this, the whole palette of colours, daubed seemingly at random, and yet so properly, across the ground.
And there, in the leaf mulch below, the new season is already stirring.
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Saturday, 16 June 2007
A puzzle.
What I don't understand is that, if I say I will worry about something when it happens, am I being pro-active or reactive?
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Blooms Day
June 16th. Blooms Day.
June 16th is the day on which all the action in James Joyce's book, Ulysses, takes place. It follows the life of Leopold Bloom on June 16th, 1904. Ulysses is possibly the most intractable of all books to read (second only to 'Using Multivariate Statistics' by Tabachnick & Fidell). I have tried a few times without success to read it. The odd thing is I enjoy it, I just don't finish it.
However I will not pass up a good excuse for a dinner theme. My parents are coming to dinner today, it was my father's birthday a few days ago, and as the Kennedy's come from Ireland, admittedly some generations ago, Irish seemed as good a theme as any. It is also my late father in law's birthday and, while he has some tenuous links to Ireland, I have him, a former Church of Scotland minister, covered with some Two Churches shiraz.
The plan is some very green pea soup served with herb and cheese scones, a beef & Guinness casserole served with colcannon, a traditional Irish dish of potato and cabbage. The meal will wind up with some rhubarb, apple & ginger crumble and custard.
And we will start festivities with a glass or two of some home-made Damson port. Well, it is port in name, because it used port yeast, but it's character lends itself to an aperitif rather than to accompanying coffee.
Pretty bloomin' good, I reckon.
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Friday, 15 June 2007
Consuming art.
Tho photo montage above is 5 ft by 12 ft in reality and represents the number of plastic bottles discarded in the US every five minutes. Detail photo below. It is not meant to be a criticism of the US; per capita we are all contributing the same sort of waste. The exception being the photo depicting annual handgun deaths, of course. The photos come from Chris Jordan's site.
It is something of an eye-opener.
It is something of an eye-opener.
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Thursday, 14 June 2007
Lady Di Tn, commenting to the last post, said she regretted looking at some of my other blogs. My apologies. I have now tried to make it clearer that there are dangerous rooms in the Curate's house where, if you wander far from the front drawing room where we genteelly drink tea and nibble madeleines, you may wish you hadn't.
A new room that I have put up there today is 'The trip of a lifetime". A bit of a double act. I originally put the shell of the blog together late last year, expecting it to be a bit of a psychological, philosophical journey. After the style of Gibran's The Prophet and structured around a poem I love, Flecker's The Golden Journey to Samarkand. But nothing happened as I wanted to 'get it right' and got stuck on how to do that.
Now, I am talking of going to Samarkand myself. How things change.
The blog will become a bit of a blend of the two ideas: the internal and external journey of life.
And it will be safe to visit.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007
A life's work
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007
As the exams loom, a problem arises...
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Monday, 11 June 2007
Beavering away...
Beavering away - studying for statistics exam on Wednesday - so a joke to keep the blog warm.
A gardener, an architect, and a lawyer are discussing which of their vocations is the most ancient.
The gardener comments, "My vocation goes back to the Garden of Eden, when God told Adam to tend the garden."
The architect comments, "My vocation goes back to the creation, when God created the world itself from primordial chaos."
They both look curiously at the lawyer, who asks, "And who do you think created the primordial chaos?
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Friday, 8 June 2007
Dreaming, dreaming...
All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night
in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dream with open eyes,
to make it possible.
- T. E. Lawrence.
Sometimes things just seem to happen for no apparent reason.
A confluence of dreams, opportunities and reality.
Some of these recent things are: Margaret's brother being diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma - happily treatable but a wake up call on the reality of time and age; I finish honours this year and I certainly had envisaged going on to Masters or Doctorate but there is still time for that; Margaret finishes her diploma this year and would probably head off to find a job; the boys have either moved out or are old enough to look after themselves.
It means that 2008 is a time when we can both put things on hold and be relatively free.
It may not happen again for quite some time.
It gives us a great opportunity to...travel.
So where to?
Obviously UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland are high up there so Margaret can visit her family. But if I am going to travel to the UK I want to value-add a bit. What say France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco? And if we did the Trans-Siberian railway we could visit Finland on the way through to the UK.
And I have this hankering for Uzbekistan....well, its second city, Samarkand to be exact. (Logistics are very hazy here).
A separate trip to Asia is possible with Vietnam, Malaysia and Burma looking interesting.
And thirdly, but possibly not finally, Western Australia. Perth and up to Broome and the Kimberleys and on to Darwin.
Yes, it is all a dream, and a very recent dream, at the moment.
Watch this space.
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Wednesday, 6 June 2007
Trojan Horse-food.
Am I doing the right thing?
My lawn, such as it was, died over summer. Watering of lawns is prohibited under the current drought conditions. Yes, we have had some rain but still well below average. Most of my garden is garden. The front yard long ago became just plants and mulch. The back yard has some lawn but it turned to a dust bowl over summer. Now, for reasons I can only ponder the justice of, the grass is not coming back but the weeds are. [sniff!]
Well, when I was out for one of my walks (DIY back therapy) I noticed something strange: the parklands were all thick and green. They don't get watered either but there they are, absolutely, obscenely, lush after a little autumn rain.
That has to be the grass for me!
So, on my walks, I have been taking a plastic bag and a small knife and bringing back runners of this wonder grass. It is, I think, some sort of couch (spelt cowch, pronounced cooch) grass. I have been planting these cuttings all over the back lawn area; it looks like a bad day at the Shane Warne hair clinic at the moment but hopefully that will change.
My worry is whether I am bringing in a Trojan Horse, or horse feed, will this supergrass take over? Will I spend my semi-comatose moments at night wondering if the faint rustle I can hear is the couch grass on the march? Will I spend my waking hours thrashing it back from the rest of the garden?
I'll let you know.
In the meantime I am hopeful for some lush, green grass.
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Tuesday, 5 June 2007
No sense crying over spilled Merlot.
Well, cabernet merlot really, but sometimes one must go with the metre.
Last night we went to a dinner put on by the catering class at the college Margaret attends. It was a three course, linen napkin affair. And I have never seen so many waiters in a real restaurant. Admittedly these ones were VERY nervous.
The meal got off to an awkward start when the wine waiter was putting my glass of wine on the table and managed to lose the remaining glass off the tray. Mostly down my right-hand side. Of course, it was a red wine and, for extra effect, the glass bounced off my shoulder and broke on the floor. The waiter was horrified, the supervisor was horrified, the people around the table looked at me... What can you do? The guy was mortified enough. Tried to reassure him that I ahd always wanted a pink shirt but he seemed unconvinced. The supervisor assured me the school would dry clean my shirt and jacket and the meal continued.
It wasn't a great meal.
But it was definitely memorable.
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Monday, 4 June 2007
Art? Rubbish!
Simon missed putting out the recycle bin a few weeks back and so had to 'compact' things to accommodate four weeks worth of rubbish, rather than a fortnight.
He very carefully put things within things and packed the bin beautifully.
The above is a photo down into the green bin and then fiddled with slightly, using Photoshop.
I like it.
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Sunday, 3 June 2007
A snapshot in time.
A few folk I visit in Blogville have been writing about their surrounds, where they write.
So I picked up my camera, stood up and took a few totally impromptu photos of my study.
As it is, right now.
Maybe it will inspire me to keep it tidy in case I get the impulse to do it again.
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It's my coffee. Leave me alone.
I vary enormously in how much sugar I put in my coffee. The first hit of the day is often strong and sweet. The maintenance cups during the day are usually unsweetened but weaker.
But not always.
Occasionally some smart-arse will see me putting two spoons of sugar in a coffee and make either a snide comment or 'tsk-tsk' sound of disapproval. More often or not they are clutching a soft drink or, the more virtuous ones, a bottle of fruit juice. For some reason they are nearly always in bottles larger than a coffee mug (300ml). Bottles of soft drink are usually 600ml, cans are usually 375ml and fruit juices 500ml.
"OK", says I. "You have there a 500ml bottle of drink . What does the nutrition panel say about the sugar content? Ten gram per 100ml? I thought so."
Most drinks (soft drinks, fruit juices, flavoured milks)are about 10% sugar. There is a point of optimum sweetness - too much sugar and they taste cloying and syrupy, too little and they taste watery. That point (depending on acidity) is about 10% sugar. Sports drinks are 5-8% but have a high salt/mineral content to compensate.
"OK, so your drink is 10% sugar. That means 50g of sugar in 500ml. The average teaspoon is 5g. So you are holding a drink containing ten teaspoons of sugar."
Now, how many did I put in my coffee?
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Question: What RPG do you enjoy playing as is?
Answer: I don't spend a lot of time adapting the various World of Darkness offerings to different genres or games. I like them as is.
Pendragon also obviously hits that list pretty hard. I always run it as the Great Pendragon Campaign.

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Ok, ya'll know I'm just a sucker for bigfoot flicks. Hell, I'm one of the only people I know who absolutely fuckin' LOVE THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK. So, of course, I watch just about every movie made about the big, hairy bastard (even the piece of shit flicks that dominate the genre these days…poor Lance Henriksen). That being said, I'm looking forward to another one, this time about the legendary Grassman, Ohio's Bigfoot legend (on which there was an episode for the show Monster Quest). Obviously a heavily independent flick, I look forward to giving it a shot. So far, I don't have much information on the flick, but check out the production blog HERE.
Here's a lil trailer for ya:
The Legend of Grassman – Trailer #2 from Dennis Meyer on Vimeo.


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Made for the now-what
"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your wild and precious life?"
-Mary Oliver
"…the great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
It's 1:07am, and I can't fall back asleep. I'm wide awake. It's not insomnia. No, it's something different. Inspiration, maybe. A gnawing awareness. An energy I recognize from the days I wrote music like my life depended on it.
I have a hunch you feel the same, too. If you're reading this, if you've kept up with the blog for a while, we probably share a similar need to know and be known deeply. To create. To grow.
I've seen this energy take me to wonderful places, and I've experienced the dark places it can lead, as well. It's a double-edged sword: one side sharp with wonder and the other with doubt and loneliness. You see, the danger is to get hung up in the ideas, to become frozen, and never move into action.
There's a phrase my friend and mentor uses often:
"Here's what, so what, now what?"
The here's-what is the idea or principle. The so-what is where the principle intersects our life (context). The now-what is our reaction or application.
How often do we get hung up in the here's-what? How much time do we spend trying to understand with certainty before we actually take action? How often do we miss the invitation to live, because we think we need to map out all of the mechanics first?
Bob Goff wrote in his book Love Does,
"There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day."
We can spend our lives learning and growing, arguing and splitting hairs over systems of belief and semantics, but what difference does it make if the rubber never meets the road?
When I get hung up on the "here's what," I become discouraged quickly. When I take what I've learned and try to pull from it a meaningful way to impact others in my day-to-day, I feel inspired and full of energy.
What can I do today, right this minute, at this very second, to move the ball forward? To affect progress. Not to abandon the wonderful pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, but to avoid a cerebral marathon.
I'm awake right now, because there is a "now what" I feel forming in the depths of my heart and mind. A dream. A vision. A picture that's been forming since day one.
And for you, my friend, you are immensely gifted and blessed. You have been given much. Much is required.
So now what?
What will you do with your one "wild and precious" life?


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Macaroon I Table lamp
This variant is currently sold out
Inspired by the French delicacy, "le macaron", the Macaroon lamp series gives rooms an elegant and simple touch by balancing opal glass, a brass ring and ceramic. Created by industrial designer Christian Troels.
Opal glass + ceramic + brass
Ø 18 cm
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My first experience with Ohio as a whole was back in 2007, when I flew out to join a bunch of runner friends at the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati, OH. Interestingly, this was my first experience with the Columbus metro area as well, as I was tasked with picking up my friend/hotel roommate for the weekend from the airport there.
As disastrously as that venture could have turned out (being a complete newbie to the area,) I managed to figure it all out with the assistance of another Columbus-based associate of ours. During my brief visit with that associate before picking up my roommate, I had asked if there was something I really, really should do or try while I was here in Ohio. "Graeter's Ice Cream," they said unequivocally.
Some back story is required here. Ice cream had been one of those things I had pretty much given up in an effort to get my weight issue in order. Starting at the end of 2002, I had aimed for a gradual weight loss over time by combining some dietary deletions (including ice cream), portion control and an increase in physical activity. This gradual change over time was also beneficial in that it was less of a diet plan (which implies something temporary) and more of a mental change.
I hoped that by the time what I deemed a good fighting weight, I wouldn't have to think about calorie counting or maintaining an eating diary - it would just simply be second nature. I also came to realize that an occasional indulgence was healthy - there was no obsessing over any food to the point of binging and showed the confidence in the way I was dealing with food.
By the time I flew out to Cincinnati, I had indeed reached a good fighting weight, and yes, Graeter's would be on my seeking list.
I found a Graeter's shop near the end of my stay here in Gahanna, shortly after I dropped my run race roommate off for his flight back home, ordering two scoops (Buckeye Blitz and Butter Pecan) on a sugar cone. It became evident quickly to me it was less the flavor (each flavor was solidly in the very good category) as much as the thick and custardy texture that drove this ice cream's appeal for me. I learned later that this texture was due to their use of the "French Pot" process, which creates ice cream two gallons at a time and requires a high amount of manual labor to stir and then pack the finish product. This latter aspect tends to make Graeter's more expensive than other larger-production ice cream brands.
Since that first trip out, my Columbus experiences have led me to like a certain area ice cream vendor (yes, you know who - more on that on a future post) just a little bit better. And it's not like I haven't eaten any Graeter's scoops or pints since I've been here either. I did realize, however, that I hadn't really done a true, careful tasting of any of their products since that very first sampling seven years ago.
To rectify this, I recently dropped by the store on Bethel Road (their Columbus Corporate Center - they have nine other retail locations scattered around the Columbus metro area.) I simply wanted a scoop of butter pecan, just like seven years ago, but after asking if I was eating in, the server asked if I wanted an additional scoop for just 50 cents more.
Well, geez, twist my arm already...okay, add a peach scoop to that order.
I went to sit down and slowly savor my newly acquired indulgences. I started with the butter pecan: nice chunks of pecan surrounded by a ice cream base with just the very faintest hint of butter. And yes, there was that custardy, thick texture - this butter pecan was that same very good as it ever was.
The peach flavor, on the other hand, was new for me. The custardy texture was less evident with this ice cream; I think that is a bonus here, whether that is the natural outcome of production or done intentionally. The peach flavor was solidly there but not overwhelming; occasional chunks of the fruit reminded you that this wasn't anything artificial.
I glanced around the store, turning my attention between spoonfuls to the special co-branded Jelly Belly jellybean stand, the cases of pre-packaged pints and ice cream cakes, the line of customers itself, and then finally all the smiling kids. Many were hanging around tables setup for birthday celebrations, while others happily cavorting around the special indoor playground area, or talking up their parents at scattered tables around me. That's when I had my revelation.
For me, I think Graeter's best aspect for me is how it appeals to the kid in me, the "Oooh, yeah, can we go there, Dad? Can we? Can We?" drive that every child has. If I had a dream place I wanted to grab a banana split sundae, or slurp down a big old milk shake with family or friends, Graeter's is the kind of place I'd go.
Graeter's Ice Cream (Columbus Corporate Center)
2555 Bethel Rd (Northwest - Google Maps)
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Today was the first time I cried after a haircut. Is that some kind of milestone of womanhood? Because it kind of feels like it.
The problem wasn't all with the haircut. I'd heard such good things about this stylist that I let myself get a little bit excited to try someone new. I liked her hair, and she was specially trained to cut thick, curly or wavy hair. So I went in, armed with some photos of what I wanted, and after several minutes of her gushing over what great hair I have (and really, it's one of my favorite physical attributes-- when done right, it's pretty amazing hair) we got started.
At first, things looked promising. She reaffirmed that I really don't ever need to shampoo. With hair as thick and dry as mine, warm water, a good scalp scrub and some conditioner are all I really need. Her particular brand smelled delicious and she gave me a great wash- the kind where you feel like along with all the dirt and drugstore product build-up, you're also washing away a little bit of your old, imperfect self.
She asked if we could work with my natural curl, and I said sure since I've had some good cuts in the past with people who've said that. But that's when the trouble started. She started twisting the hair on the top of my head to bring out the curl and pinning it to "give it some volume". If there's one thing my hair doesn't need, it's volume.
Then, she plunked me in one of those giant hair driers and handed me a book about curly hair and said, "Read this. I've underlined a few passages. You don't really need to read anything else." This should have clued me in that this woman was someone who had a message and wanted me to hear it, but I went ahead and read her book while she made me try her awkward foot massage machine that mostly just made my legs tingle.
During the last few minutes of the blow dry, I noticed a Strong's concordance and Bible sitting on her counter and asked if they were hers. She said yes and told me she was learning "the ancient Hebrew" to enlighten her Bible studies. Now, of course this is something I can get behind so I asked her what she'd learned. The first couple things were stuff my mom had taught me in seminary, so I smiled and encouraged her to tell me more.
At this point, she asked if I went to church around here, and I told her I went to the one across the street from the salon. "The Mormon church?" she asked. And when I said yes, I saw a little glint in her eye. (OK. Maybe not. But looking back on this story, it's certainly where the non-haircut portion of the disaster started.)
We moved to the chair for her to start cutting and she slathered a bunch of goop in my hair, parted it on the wrong side-- I told her it was the wrong side, but she informed me my face was lopsided and that this would correct it-- and started chopping my hair SUPER short on top. Before I could gasp, she was half way done.
Right about then, she had also started informing me of why America was going to hell. It started with the fact that our Christmas traditions were all pagan, nothing new of course, but she described in detail testacles dipped in gold and silver and hung on trees. She then moved on to the Easter bunny and the how the Catholics were run by Satan and funded the Muslim church that Obamanation (clever, eh?) was a part of.
Just about the time I was missing my haircut tradition of perusing a People magazine, which I do only at salons and doctors offices, she started talking about this great documentary she watched about the secret cult everyone in Hollywood was a part of. "You know that girl, Taylor Swift? Well, when she was at some award ceremony and that rapper man, Jay Z--no, K something--anyway, when he got up and yelled at her in the middle of the thing, do you know what that was? That was an initiation ritual. All the secret cults do that. Fraternities, the free masons, even your secret mormon things."
At this point, I was speechless, which she wouldn't have noticed since she NEVER STOPPED TALKING. She went on for another 20 minutes or so telling me about government cover-ups, the sign of the beast, the apocolypse, and her favorite conspiracy theories. (Did you know that people who believe conspiracy theories actually use the phrase "conspiracy theory"? I thought they'd be offended by that since that phrase has "paranoid wacko" wrapped up its connotations. But, don't worry, they're not.) She also hinted, with little to no subtlety that she believed the Mormons were all wrapped up in this and that I was doomed to hell, just like those people in John 6:66 (!!!) who turned their back on Jesus.
I could barely hold it in. I wanted to say, "Do you really think they're all in hell? Don't you think a loving Jesus is going to give them a chance? Because I do. I think He's got grace enough to love us all- Mormons, sinners, free-masons, democrats, Catholics, Obama, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, and KANYE (yes, that's who you meant)-- back into His presence if we let Him."
But I didn't because at that moment she said, "There! Don't you love it?! Isn't it beautiful?" and I was just so relieved to be done that I said yes and got out of the chair as fast as I could. I even tipped her. I'm that much of coward when it comes to confronting bad customer service.
Then, I got in my car and cried, and came home to Sam and cried, and looked in the mirror and cried. And then I heard Levi making bubbles in the tub and heard Anna laughing at him, and decided it wasn't the worst tragedy in the world. That will probably be when I go to hell.


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Within three months after all of the first appointed members of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund have been appointed and qualified, the governor shall call the first meeting of the board, and thereafter meetings of the board shall be called in such manner and at such times as the board prescribes, provided, that the board shall meet at least four times annually. All meetings of the board shall be open to the public except executive sessions as set forth in division (G) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, and any portions of any sessions discussing medical records or the degree of disability of a member excluded from public inspection by section 742.41 of the Revised Code.
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Hi folks. These are the long term trendlines in place since 2016 ( BTC goes back to 2014, with ascending slopes). BTC (log scale, ascending even on log scale!), U.S. stock indexes linear scale. Looks like DJI and NDX have not touched down their long term trendlines yet, but BTC and SPX have. So does that mean DJI and NDX need to fall more before calling a really good bottom? Possibly. Just showing you how the graphs of all 4 are similar.
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Rollo Dilworth is chair of music education at Temple University's Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is also Associate Professor of Choral Music Education. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, he serves as conductor for the University Chorale. Prior to his appointment at Temple, he served as Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois, for 13 years. Dr. Dilworth holds degrees from Case Western Reserve University, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Northwestern University. Dilworth has written and/or arranged over 150 choral works that are currently in print. He frequently serves as a guest conductor and/or clinician for honors, festival and all-state choirs throughout the United States and abroad. Dilworth is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of Negro Musicians, the American Choral Directors Association and Chorus America. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and currently serves on the Pennsylvania ACDA State board as Director of Student and Youth Activities.
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Lysterfield Park is a beautiful spot not far from Melbourne with approximately 20km of trails designated for mountain bike use. Lysterfield Park has a wide range of trails to cater for everyone, including the 6.3km State Mountain Bike Course - home of the 2006 Commonwealth Games cross country mountain bike competition.
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It was called The Mexborough Arms before Wetherspoons took it over. The first pub, this is the second, was built as a coaching inn and it is said that there was a gallows on the site of the old bowling green. The pub was extended in the late 70's, creating Fox's nightclub which was very popular. I went to see John Lowe, Leighton Rees, Cliff Lazarenko and Eric Bristow all play an exhibition match there one night (78/79) and the place was packed. It suffered a bit when the Shoulder of Mutton closed as a lot of the people causing the Shoulder's problems became regulars but since then the landlord has worked hard to keep it the decent pub it is.
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Silence has several faces. It's the face of a dark cave lit by a crackling fire. It's the forest set with drops of dew; A canyon rushing with waterfalls. It's the early morning glow atop a wheat hill, or the stillness of the oceans bay.
And then there is the face of God.
The face of Silence is a mountain-top held up by whispers of The Lord. Where He is heard and pondered about.
-The talking S u n f l o w e r


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Not Celiac safe. All marked appetizers are fried in the same oil. Sirloin steak and gf sides made me sick.
Great Gluten Free bun, had a turkey grilled cheese! Yum
celiac friendly. Waiter knew to bring the manager. They have a separate fryer for French fries and gluten free buns. Manager was very knowledgeable. They know to wash hands and notify cooking staff.
good food with several gf options
extensive gf menu. burgers, salads, apps.
Spoke to a manager as we were seated and he seemed ok with celiac concerns but not great. Waiter seemed very uneducated and the salad we received had croutons on it and thus sent it back. No faith in the kitchen or staff here.
What a surprise! Tuscan Chicken is outstanding. Staff not extremely knowledgeable, but there is a gluten free menu. We are Celiac, but had no issues and loved the unusual flavors of this dish.
Probably not good place for coeliacs, but do have GF buns for sandwiches and burgers.
Pub food that has never had a problem after eating. Great for sporting events.
Pretty good gluten free menu and willing to make modifications to anything on their menu to meet gluten free needs! Staff and managers are knowledgable in regards to celiac disease. Will definitely be back!
Josh, the General Manager was very knowledgeable about his new gluten free menu and so was my server. I was very impressed. There are appetizers, salads, entrees and sides to choose from, and the food was good. The burgers are bun-less, they do not have gluten free buns. I would go back again for sure, next to try the ribs!
Stay away from this place!!! I asked for a gluten free menu and was given something that looked like it was an instruction sheet for the cook staff (which was very scary by the way). I ordered a chopped salad figuring that would be my safest option and it was served with a big hot breadroll right on top! After the salad fiasco was handled my waitress asked me if I'd be interested in a (non-gf) brownie sundae for dessert! These people have no clue. Go to Weber Grill right next door.
Oops. They brought French onion soup and forgot to really make it gluten free. The bread was floating under the cheese. I even asked the guy that delivered it to my table. My husband ordered his French onion soup regular. I tasted it and couldn't tell. The Malbec is great- that impairs my ability to discern. They were very sorry. Very nice. Still not gluten free.
Pretty good. Still need a little better training, but a very good option.
Awful Gluten Free menu. There's like four things on the gf menu salad, burger, fajitas and water. Champs either doesn't understand what exactly gf means or they use the lowest quality food possible. Everything on the gf menu (meaning the four items to choose from) says NO CHEESE. Therefore they don't understand that lactose and gluten are two desperate intolerances/allergies or they must use cheeses that have been processed a million times and have cheap additives..ie gluten.


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Two people died Friday in a car wreck on North Oak Grove Road in Lumpkin County, Georgia State Patrol Corporal Anthony Coleman said.
Coleman of Cumming Post 37 said the state patrol is still investigating the circumstances of the wreck that occurred at about 5:30 p.m.
He said one of the people in the car was taken by helicopter to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Coleman said the other passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.
Coleman said the investigation should be completed by the end of this week.


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The Art of Boichi – Artbook by J-Pop
A backstage pass to Boichi's art
Today comes out The Art of Boichi, a new original Artbook created by J-Pop!
The Art of Boichi is a real behind the scene of Boichi's art. It contains extensives informations about his work techniques, gorgeous color pages, progress work, interviews as well as the step by step creation process of the artbook's cover illustration.
J-Pop is Boichi's Italian editor publishing Sun-Ken Rock, Wallman, Yumin: Hot & Spicy and Space Chef Caisar in Italy.
Here's a message from J-Pop's founder Marco Schiavone for the occasion:
Boichi has been a key part of J-POP's story since our early days. Sun Ken Rock was amongst the very first books we published in 2006, and it was in so many ways a symbol of what J-POP would become. We would never be interested in princesses that needed saving, but rather in dragon queens to save ourselves from; we would learn to "go for it" and we would take pride in being a small team taking on the vast challenges that lay before us. We fell in love with Boichi's beautiful women, men and fantastic settings, and, truth be told, we never fully recovered.
For these and so many other reasons, when Sun Ken Rock came to an end in 2016, the year of our 10th anniversary, we weren't quite sure what to do with ourselves, but one thing was certain… we would not let that be the end. Not yet.
The Art of Boichi is a book dedicated to all of his fans and to Boichi himself, and we hope that our readers will love it as much as we do, bittersweet nostalgia and all.
– Marco Schiavone, Founder J-POP
With its 200 color pages and softcover, The Art of Boichi is available for 25€ on the editor's website or Amazon.it for those living outside of Italy:
Wether you are a fans, an aspiring mangaka, a manga lover or even simply someone enjoying artworks, then The Art of Boichi is for you!


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The Feast of Epiphany marks the end of Christmas, and commemorates the Magi who followed a star to find the Christ-child. The Feast of Epiphany blessing asks that we might find the Lord when our pilgrimage is ended. It also reminds us that we should be looking for God, and finding Him, all along the way. Catholics traditionally bless their homes on Epiphany night with holy water.
Pray that all who enter your home will be treated with dignity and love, and that those who come there might find, as did the magi on their journey, the true and ever-living Christ. More on Epiphany customs in our book.
Here are some Epiphany blessings and prayers:
Lord God of heaven and earth,
you revealed your only begotten Son to every nation
by the guidance of a star.
Bless this home and all who inhabit it.
Fill us with the light of Christ
That our concern for others may reflect your love.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
May Christ Jesus dwell with us,
keep us from all harm,
and make us one in mind and heart, now and forever. Amen.
The magi followed the star,
and found Christ who is light from light.
May you, too, find the Lord
when your pilgrimage is ended.
–Solemn blessing Roman rite


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Dark Horse's This Damned Band
Article By: Nicole Jean Turner
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Paul Cornell
Artist: Tony Parker
Cover Artist: Tony Parker
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Paul Cornell
Artist: Tony Parker
Cover Artist: Tony Parker
Cover Price: $3.99
This Damned Band, a nostalgic flash back to the rocking music scene of the 70's is a comic book by Paul Cornell and Tony Parker. That cliché phrase about loving all things sex, drugs, and rock n' roll could easily be the subtitle to the book. The first 10 pages also depict all three acts so sorry kiddos, this one is not for you.
As would be expected from the psychedelic whirl of pink green and orange on the cover, the excitement comes from the consequences of tripping on magic mushrooms. The book takes the first 15 pages to get to that excitement, first telling a bland but colorful story you've heard a hundred times before. Band members are volatile, drinking, using drugs, yelling at each other and the management is doing their thing, etc.
The drugs get brought in with a contract that displays a crude mushroom looking object, and a list of Chinese characters in black and red. There's an implication that the mushrooms are rare and will provide an otherworldly experience, and when the lead singer eats more than he should, one of the men tries to stop him but it's too late.
The band gets on stage, and the artwork starts to change. The pages in the front of the book have clear-cut line work, a solid contrast and a fairly normal palate of colors. There's lightning, spinning, a whole bunch of weird faces and eyes, the lead singer is seen dancing while fairies are flying above him up into the whirl of colors. It almost made me as the reader feel dizzy. The lead singer struggles to hold it together until his eyes burn red and he breaks through the trip and screams out the lyrics.
The show ends and the guys are walking backstage, escorted by their mushroom providers, where they meet their biggest fan. Standing in a thin tall black suit with five faces and a charismatic charm to the way he holds his drink, the story ends with his introduction. Following that are two pages of cover art for the band's CD's. Very 70's. I'm not sure what the rest of the series holds with this kind of start, but if it's anything like the first it should hold to be at least a well illustrated story. My guess is it will continue on to something along the lines of that Johnny Cash song about battling musically for your soul, i.e. cliché city.
It's not the craziest or best thing I've ever read; things were cliché and the book took the typical route for stories about rock stars. There was also this little caveat about the apocalypse or something, and I felt myself glazing over & reading past it, but maybe I'm just cynical about apocalyptic-prediction-music-dependant-stories in general. I felt though that the psychedelic art was rather unique and that this could easily inspire some wacky dreams if read before bedtime. My final thought is simple; I think I'm too young to appreciate this comic book. I liked classic rock as a teenager, but I'm not into it as much as I used to be. If I connected more with that old gritty rock-god scene of the 70's a bit more, I think I'd have been less critical.
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**Summer 2014 update: BCeSIS has finally gone! A new program, Aspen, has been selected to take its place. Teachers everywhere smile.**
BCeSIS is a nightmarish grade-reporting program mandated for use in all BC schools. When droves of teachers began to report problems with the program, the British Columbia government spent over $50 million to fix it, with basically no results. It's buggy, heavy-handed, and reminiscent of software from the early 1990's. This is what we use to create your children's report cards that attempt to guide them through the formative years of their lives.
Any business would quickly ask why anyone would use something so pathetic across the province. There are twitter accounts and YouTube videos dubbed over old German WW2 movies (see below) dedicated to mocking and berating the existence of this digital problem package. In private industry, an agile, user-friendly, service-oriented competitor would have quickly pitched their platform and earned the contract. Alas, red tape and provincial mandates.
And today, in the middle of report card writing season, BCeSIS won't even open on any of my internet browsers, since it was built on an old version of Java and the update renders it inaccessible.
It's bitter, ridiculous irony: a report-writing program designed to "support student achievement" has done so little towards that goal; I would go so far as to say BCeSIS has negatively affected reporting in British Columbia. The space it provides teachers to summarize the total personal, intellectual, social and emotional learning of their students is an inadequate three sentences. The amount of headaches caused to teachers during report writing weeks and weekends have been enough to begin the next week of teaching exasperated and grumpy. This software is supposed to make our jobs easier, not harder.
And with the incredible amount of great tech start-ups even right in Vancouver (like the world-class Hootsuite) almost anyone could have done it better. Imagine a beautiful, local solution we could be proud of. But somehow, in this stupid catastrophe, we have ended up with a worthless and meaningless platform produced by a technology company whose work in general has been less than superior; technology which makes us feel like we're doing data entry on lab rats or testing out retro software that feels like you should have accessed it using MS-DOS prompt.
Government of British Columbia, I implore you. Quickly axe BCeSIS as suggested in 2011. This living nightmare has lasted long enough.


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The company Slovak HOLDING Ltd. was established as a holding company of several companies with a view to the common foreign market expansion, especially The Near East and North Africa in 2009. Goal is to build business relationships between the Slovak and the Middle East and North Africa, export capacities and technologies and to help investors to proceed their plan. Later the management of the company profiled on one entity with the intention of simplifying and accelerating the decision-making processes. The company is able to dynamically respond to market demands and business partners. It focuses mainly on construction activities, construction technology units to key production facilities and halls and manufacture and installation of steel constructions.
Asset is our team of knowledgeable experts and quality technical equipment. Relatively wide range of activities which provide performed in a timely manner and emphasis is placed mainly on the quality of the work performed.


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Greece is politically and economically bankrupt. Unemployment is 24.4% and destined to get much worse with the latest round of austerity measures.
Worse yet, Greece is still encumbered by massive layers of bureaucracy that makes it difficult to get anything done.
Yesterday, in a massive breach of security, Greek citizens stormed the defense ministry. This has German chancellor Angela Merkel willing to take a chance on a trip to Greece next week.
Today, Antonis Samaras, the Greek Prime Minister warns of societal disintegration without urgent financial aid.
Antonis Samaras says Greece's democracy is in danger, comparing situation to Germany's pre-war Weimar Republic
Greece is teetering on the edge of collapse with its society at risk of disintegrating unless the country's near-empty public coffers are shored up with urgent financial aid, the country's prime minister has warned.
Almost three years after the eruption of Europe's debt drama in Athens, the economic crisis engulfing the nation has become so severe that democracy itself is now imperiled, Antonis Samaras said.
Resorting to highly unusual language for a man who weighs his words carefully, the 61-year-old politician evoked the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to highlight the threat that Greece faces, explaining that society "is threatened by growing unemployment, as happened to Germany at the end of the Weimar Republic".
Mounting anti-austerity rage before a new round of sweeping EU-IMF-mandated austerity measures appears to have caught the government off-guard, with officials voicing fears over the ability of Samaras's fragile coalition to survive.
The unprecedented storming of Greece's defence ministry by hundreds of protesting dockworkers on Thursday – a breach of security not seen in modern times – has especially unnerved officials. On Friday, Samaras lashed out at "those who don't understand the meaning of law and order".
"The government is waging a battle on all fronts for the nation's credibility and its future so that the sacrifices made by Greeks aren't lost," he said, referring to the spending cuts and tax increases that have sparked record levels of poverty and unemployment. "I will not allow the country to become a free-for-all."
In the interview Samaras emphasised that Greek cash reserves would run dry by the end of November. "The key is liquidity," said the leader. "That is why the next credit tranche is so important for us."
The high-wire act of placating international lenders while keeping social unrest at bay will be tested as never before when Merkel, the German chancellor, flies into Athens next Tuesday. With anti-EU sentiment at an all-time high, opposition parties and trade unions vowed a baptism of fire.
"She should expect demonstrations. Greek society will welcome her with mass protests," said Panos Skourletis, a spokesman for the radical left main opposition Syriza party.
The Independent Greeks party, also vehemently anti-bailout, has said it will make war reparations a major part of its own protest when it stages a "symbolic blockade" outside the German embassy in Athens during Merkel's visit.
The warning by Samaras coupled with the storming of the defense ministry is not a sign of a pending societal collapse, but rather a sign the collapse is well underway.
There is no reason to believe a visit from chancellor Merkel will stem the tide.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock


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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. "A fantasy? A nightmare?" This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive. RON SUSKIND is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty and A Hope in the Unseen. From 1993 to 2000, he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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On which side of the pond is the grass greener?
August 2013
A funny thing happened to Lloyd Dunlap, one of our contributing editors, this month as he worked on "U.K.'s Department of Health launches DNA mapping effort," a story you can read in our 'Omics & Systems Biology section on page 24. Lloyd's story reports that the United Kingdom's Department of Health has launched an effort called Genomics England that aims to achieve a better understanding of cancer, rare and infectious diseases. To Lloyd's surprise, one thing he learned in the course of reporting the story was that the launch of Genomics England comes at the same time that some British government leaders are facing backlash over their attempts to privatize the National Health Service (NHS)you know, the U.K.'s globally admired public healthcare system that provides a comprehensive range of health services to residents for free (well, sort of; until you count the taxes that make the whole thing possible, anyway).
Is Jolly Old England changing its tune when it comes to its publicly funded healthcare systemthe largest and the oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world, which has provided the majority of primary care, in-patient care, long-term healthcare, ophthalmology and dentistry in England for six decades? It seems so, as a recent investigation by the British media news organization The Guardian found that "at least a dozen NHS hospital trusts are technically bankrupt, with no chance of meeting a legal obligation to balance their books." The root of the problem seems to be multifaceted, with healthcare reform, epidemics like obesity and diabetes and rising equipment costs all being cited as contributing to the problem.
"Privatization of the NHS is but ONE of the necessary steps that next government will have to undertake to bring public spending under control, as the consequences of not doing so will be for a decade or more of economic depression under a continually escalating debt mountain that the country will increasingly find painful to service in terms of interest payments," argues The Market Oracle, a website that provides financial-market forecasting and analysis.
As Lloyd and I pondered this strange news, he reminded me, "As the U.K. is contemplating privatizing the NHS, we're moving toward a national healthcare system."
"As my grandfather used to say, 'Everything goes in sickles,'" Lloyd joked.
Ah, yes, how could I forget? Every major news organization in the country has been running headlines about the looming enrollment period for the so-called Obamacare healthcare exchanges, set to open Oct 1. Heard above the very loud din from every corner of the political arena have been claims from state officials that these exchanges will send health insurance costs soaring. Here in Ohio, where DDNEWS is headquartered, state officials have been predicting that the average cost of health insurance will increase by 41 percent for state residents. Not so, some experts were quick to counter.
"These are sticker prices, and very few people will pay these prices," Larry Levitt, senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, told the Columbus Dispatch. "Many will qualify for subsidies. For consumers, all you can do is walk away from this confused. Averages are pretty much meaningless."
It can be hard to find meaning in anything so hotly debated. Both the U.K. and the United States have healthcare systems in place that don't seem to be working. It all makes me wonder: On which side of the pond is the grass greener?
How does one even go about answering such a question, when you're pummeled by statistics gathered to prove any point, confronted with blatant misinformation and distracted by anecdotal evidence? Like our bi-monthly columnist, Peter T. Kissinger argues below, "Facts don't matter until they do." The question here is, whose version of the facts do we believe?
It would be nice to have some facts on public versus private healthcare. Unfortunately, the only fact I have in my possession related to this column is the fact that my own grass needs some TLC after a typically wacky (intermittent periods of hot/dry and cool/wet) Cleveland summer season.
But how about those Brits? And speaking of them, did you hear their royal family got a new addition last month with the birth of George Alexander Louis? Our managing editor, Jeff Bouley, dared me to mention that in my column. This was the most creative way I could find to do that. Hey, every other news organization in the world mentioned it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I guess some people would say the same thing about the United States' attempt to create a healthcare system similar to what the U.K. has. Then again, maybe they wouldn't.
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The Albany singer-songwriter and entrepreneur thinks "Hero," a heart-wrenching, patriotic tale about father-son casualties of war, may be his best writing work yet.
"If you give me time," Henry writes in the chorus of "Hero." "I'll tell you about the boy that got to meet his hero the day he died."
The song continues: "It's amazing how freedom feels; and freedom comes from what the soldiers give."
Henry, 40, is accompanied on the cut by his sister, vocalist Kristin Culpepper.
"I know that this song and a song I wrote about my granddaddy ('Daddy Jeff') are the ones that are closest to my heart," he says.
Henry recorded "Hero" last week in a local studio and released it Monday – just in time for Independence Day.
"With all that's going on in the country and world lately, I thought we could all use something patriotic like this. It seems like the perfect time," says the Bo Henry Band leader and co-owner of Stewbos (www.stewbos.com), a hospitality company.
Listen to "Hero" here:
For more information about Bo Henry and "Hero," please contact Kevin Hogencamp at 229-921-3424 or email@example.com.
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