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Unexplained, shifting symptoms. Always something wrong.
Caused by weakness in your Base-Line muscles?
Hypochondria is the plural form of hypochondrium.
Hypochondrium: Either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions, overlying the costal cartilages.
The hypochondrium ≊ The top of your Base-Line where your rectus abdominis muscles attach.
Could this be the origin of the 'hypochondriac' label? A whole list of symptoms, pains and niggles. Always complaining of something. Never feeling 'healthy'. All because of a dysfunction in the usage of rectus abdominis and other main muscles of movement?
Self-doubt abounded. I wondered if I was a hypochondriac, after all isn't pain said to be all your head?
The pains and other symptoms were real. Now that I have healed I know that.
Filling out medical forms - have you got X Y Z? "No, No, No" therefore I must be healthy.
Results from a couple of blood-tests over the years were unremarkable. Nothing to see, no evidence that I wasn't healthy.
I was stressed and depressed, I hardly expected to feel physically great. I felt the depression was a fundamental flaw with 'me', I never considered it was because of my body.
I felt like a fraud, like I was making it up somehow.
Many months into healing (when I knew I had discovered the reason for my pain) I still had that strong feeling of self-doubt. Picking up a frying pan and crying out in pain. I had no audience, no reason to be faking it, yet I still felt I was being overly dramatic despite the searing pain shooting up my arm.
"How are you?" was a horrible question to be asked (especially when I knew the person asking actually cared). I usually answered with a superficial "Yeah, OK, fine." If I stopped to think about how I was, the tidal wave of everything wrong would have overwhelmed me, and who really wants to hear all my woes?
Pretending I was OK (not showing weakness or admitting I was hurt) was a trait from my early childhood. Gritting my teeth and getting on with it, never asking for help. Sometimes resentful that help wasn't offered - I was in so much pain couldn't just someone see??
There was always something causing me pain, shifting aches and symptoms. I tended not to mention specifics, my 'bad back' covered most of it from my early teens. I didn't want to come across as a hypochondriac/melodramatic attention seeker.
Symptom checking - all the different muscle problems (psoas, piriformis, tight TFL etc etc.) Everything was sore - could I really have them all? I tried various muscle release techniques but I couldn't bear the pain they caused.
Chinese medicine patterns (stories that try to explain the observed connections between symptoms) - I seemed to have most of them when I read about such things. Again adding to my self-doubt - could I really be that messed up, all the symptoms unable to catagorise at all.? It turns out I did have a whole-body dysfunction.
A name for unexplained, painful symptoms these days: Fibromyalgia. What that really means is "We don't know what's going on and there's nothing we can do to help, but here's a label and just get on with it." Opening the door to all sorts of quackery and miracle-cure merchants.
Build a connection with your Base-Line and learn to use your main muscles of movement to their full potential.
The Roll-Down is the basic movement to use as you focus on your Base-Line
Develop your conscious proprioception skills and work towards body alignment to free yourself from the pain.
Some cases of 'hypochondria' may be purely psychological, but unless you are in peak physical fitness with a full range of movement then, based on my experiences, I would not rule out a physical basis for any perceived pre-occupation with health and many other 'mental' issues associated with signs of pain and tension.
Connecting with your Base-Line feels good. Take control. Heal yourself.Back To Top
Movement should not be painful.
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White House Unveils New ConnectED Effort Focused on Library Access, Content
President Obama announced new ConnectED initiatives to provide $250 million in free e-books to students and meant to give all students in 30 communities a library card.
President Obama announced new ConnectED initiatives to provide $250 million in free e-books to students and meant to give all students in 30 communities a library card.
Common Sense Media announced the launch of a $20 million national education-advocacy effort that the organization's CEO says is meant to make it an "AARP for kids" in terms of its reach.
Changes to the new Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act have won over some educator groups, but raised concerns from the ed-tech industry.
States are making significant progress in digital education efforts, with over 400 digital learning policies implemented in 2014, new ExcelinEd report finds.
A revamped federal student-data-privacy bill would cover more student information, allow fewer uses of that data, and impose new requirements on ed-tech vendors.
Fourteen states are now mandating that computer science classes be counted towards high school graduation requirements, a new report from Education Commission of the States finds.
State superintendent Dale Erquiaga said Nevada's test providers "have failed to uphold their obligations."
Nearly a quarter of teens are online "almost constantly" and 73 percent of teens own smartphones, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The American Institutes for Research, which was awarded a $220 million contract to oversee the assessments, accepted responsibility for the latest problems.
Although it's just a first step, bipartisan support for the "I-TECH" amendment by the Senate Education Committee is seen as positive by ed-tech advocates.
Four pending studies presented at AERA offer surprising findings and a nuanced look at the use of iPads and e-readers with young children.
Given time and space to innovate, librarians can be instrumental in engaging students in using programming tools, researchers said.
Fewer than 4 percent of students in a new study displayed the skills to effectively evaluate the reliability and credibility of online science information.
Does providing more teachers with basic training, or a few teachers with intensive training, result in the most impactful integration of classroom technology?
A preview of the jargon-filled annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, written at a 5th-grade reading level.
Enthusiastic usage of Google Docs did not translate into improved student test scores, according to small-scale new study.
One hundred K-12 educators nationwide were selected for PBS LearningMedia's Digital Innovators program, which recognizes effective use of technology in the classroom.
Education Week's new report "Blended Learning: Breaking Down the Barriers" features a story highlighting research on the effectiveness of such techniques.
USA Today reporter Greg Toppo examines the ways digital games are transforming education in a new book, "The Game Believes in You."
Lawmakers and policymakers should expand the scope of student data that is protected and require more of ed-tech vendors, argues a new report from NEPC.
Educators and technology leaders shared best practices for edtech in public and private schools in an Education Week Twitter chat.
A draft overhaul of FERPA would ban the use of students' educational records for marketing, allow companies to be fined, and expand parental opt-out rights.
Technology should make learning more meaningful and better support teachers, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told developers at the ASU+GSV summit on Tuesday.
Three leading educators will discuss what public and private schools can learn from each other when it comes to ed tech during a Twitter chat Tuesday, April 7 from 8 to 9 p.m. ET.
Lumen Learning announced that it has raised $2.5 million in private equity, funding that it says will help support its continued development of open educational resources.
Knewton, the company known for digital learning profiles of students, is partnering with HP to tag and code print materials, and make them "adaptive" to individual student needs.
Test developers have spent years trying to devise ways to stamp out cheating on online exams, a review of Education Week's coverage shows.


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SUNDAY morning was a time for rest, and Cal slept late. It was seven when he awoke from a sleep strangely but pleasantly haunted by visions of a beautiful maiden who had a disconcerting habit of thrusting her stockinged feet in the fire. At the cost of shattering some proprieties Cal gently but firmly averted the danger. It was a particularly engaging kind of heroism, this rescu ing of silk-stocking ed feet with a beauti ful maiden attached, and he had some thing of a grievance at the sunlight when pouring in through the window, it inter rupted his gallant occupation. Cal drew on his clothes and stretch ed himself at the granary door. The sunshine filled the yard like a flood, and
the air filled his lungs like a bellows. The world was singing a morning psalm of peace, and a lilt in his heart beat accompaniment. Matronly hens were taking their dust bath by the side of the stables while their younger sisters cackled over belated layings in the hay shed, and as Cal crossed the yard the family sow turned from sunning herself by the water trough to greet him with an amiable grunt. But at the stable Old Jim cast him a look of reproach. For an
hour he had been snuffing and nibbling in his empty manger, and he felt righteously aggrieved. It was not until he had been fed and curried, and left unharnessed, that the big bay seemed to remember what day it was, and took to a friendly nodding of a mouth broadly whiskered with hay. Plainly Jim was a believer in Sunday observance. When he had finished with his horses, Cal turned toward the water barrel at the house for his morning ablutions, but in the yard he was arrested by a sound of singing, accompanied by a drone faintly suggestive of distant bagpipes. It seemed to come from one of the smaller stables to which his duties had not yet taken him. After a moment of irresolution he turned toward it, and found an even more humble building than that which housed the horses; the chinks had fallen out in many places and the door hung only by one tenacious hinge. Inside were cows, four of them, with necks bracketed to their mangers, and a girl seated at one, streaming industrious white ribbons of milk into a tin pail which rang its reverberations riowr partly smothered in creamy froth. She was singing, and for a moment he did not disturb her. He was watching therounded, rising muscles of her arms, the; quick action of her slender wrists, the warm curve of her ear "Music hath charms!" he quoted, inanely, when he felt that he must announce himself. She stopped and regarded him for a moment. "Yes, hasn't it?" she agreed, and resumed her milking. It was true, then, that her hair was bronze; certain audacious threads, peeking out from beneath her milking cap, confirmed it. He was wishing he could help her milk. After all, what avails it to write the prizethesis on The Reaction of industrialism upon the Rural Social Atmosphere if one ha; not learned to milk? H;said so, but not in such
A swiftly-moving instalment, which shows how Reed steals his way into Mrs. Stake's affections, while Daddy X fails to make much headway with daughter Minnie.
language. "I am afraid my education has been neglected," he explained. "Don't pity yourself," she advised him. "A first-class farm hand never milks." SO HE was a farm hand. All right. He was above being hurt by being called a farm hand. Besides, he was a farm hand. "But why?" he asked. "You ask why," she said. "I'll tell you. You've seen the film, 'Why Girls Leave Home'?" "Don't know that I have." "Why, I thought you city men— It's been at the Plainville Electric Theatre. Some theatre, let me say. A sort of tunnel with a sheet at one end and a ticket box at the other. Well, I could write a scenario for a film, 'Why Country Girls Leave Home,' and I'd use only one actor." "Who?" "A cow. A herd of cows. That's why." Her remark opened up a new avenue of speculation. By no stretch of the imagination had cows, common domestic cows, female Bovina, appeared within the scope of the university curriculum touching sociology. And now-He had much to say, but before any of it had been said the girl had finished her milking, and they were at the house. "What do you do with it now?" he asked, helplessly. "Run it through the separator. You can turn it for me, if you like." He liked, and a minute later the whine of the cream separator rose above the volcanic bubbling of the porridge on the range and the clatter of Mrs. Stake's table-setting. With something akin to fascination Cal watched the little rivulet of cream trickling out of its long slender spout into the receptacle placed for it, while presently his arms
cramped to the ache of a strange exercise and the sweat began to gather on his face. "My land, you might let the man have his Sunday rest," Mrs. Stake protested. Cal wondered who supplied the horse power for this machine on week days. Certainly not Gander, nor Grit, nor Hamilton. It boiled itself down to Jackson Stake or his wife. Perhaps, in days gone by, Minnie; the girl was strong of bicep, he could see that— "Thank you," she said simply, in a voice to reach him alone, and he went to his seat at the breakfast table more than repaid. What cared he for the mocking eyes of Grit Wilson? What, indeed! No more than for the peripatetic functioning of Gander's Adam's apple, more obvious than usual against the
background of recent shave and a clean collar! AFTER breakfast they turned the horses free for exercise, and the drove, with Big Jim at their head and Reed and Trixie bringing up the rear, set out on a sedate trot around the pasture field. The trot steadily gathered momentum, and when Grit's big grey thought to slip ahead of Jim on a corner it broke into a gallop, and ended with a
flourish of tails and stamping at the pasture gate. There were many rollings on the warm grass, and heavings of great hoofs and fetlocks in the air, and prodigious scratchings of vertebral ridge-poles on the sandy earth. The forenoon was spent in congenial laziness. Cal, drawing upon the warm water reservoir at the back of the kitchen range, and requisitioning an iron wash-tub that lay upturned in the yard before the house, sought the privacy of his granary for a bath, and marvelled at the evidences of honest toil which the residue in the tub afforded. He shaved with more care than usual, selected clean shirt, underwear, and socks from his somewhat limited'wardrobe, parted his hair with military exactitude and superintended similar operations, sans the shaving, on the part of Reed. Then he sallied forth, conquering and to conquer. There was no sign of Minnie, so he rambled about the stables. On the sunny side of one of the buildings he came upon Grit and Gander lounging in the warm sand. "We was jus' sayin'," said Grit, through the clenched teeth that held his pipe; "we was jus' sayin' you ought to rig up the old Ford to run that milk buzzer. That shouldn't be hard for a man with a eddication." "For a D.D.," Gander expanded the description. Cal sat down with them, hunched his back against the sunny wall, and got out his pipe. Not until it was drawing well and the peace of tobacco was upon his soul did he take up the theme. "I'm afraid my education, along practical lines, has been neglected," he said. "Minnie'll make up for that," said Gander. "She was givin' you a good start this morning. But take a tip from father. Don' get mixed up in this chore business. There's nothin' to it." "That's what she said—or words to that effect." "She did, eh? Well, she's wise. She knows. An'when a
man drives a team all day, an' feeds up at night, I'll say he's done a day's work, an' he's through."
"Same here," Mr. Wilson volunteered.
"Sounds reasonable," Cal admitted. "And when a woman feeds a herd of hungry men three times and rids up after them I suppose she's done a day's work, and she's through too. Is that right?"
Gander took his pipe from his mouth and held it at a non-committal angle. "What are you drivin' at?" he demanded.
"Well, I've only been here a few days, and perhaps it is too soon to reach conclusions, but my specialty in college was sociology—"
"Wha's that? Got to do with socials, an' free eats? Sounds like a good subject." It was Grit who was commenting. "You'll be ace high when the box social season comes 'round."
"No, it's not exactly that," Cal continued, husbanding his good humor. "I don't know quite how I'd explain it to this audience." He paused, but his irony was too delicate: it was lost upon them. "But the purpose of all education is to teach a man to observe, to think—"
"Poor bus'ness," Grit interrupted. "The biggest trouble I ever got into came from observin'—an' thinkin'." He was for launching into a salacious story, but Cal would not be deflected.
"And my habit of observing and thinking," he continued, "has caused me to take notice that the hardest worked beast of burden on the farm is the farmer's wife. Now that's a tremendous fact. I suppose it has more to do with the movement from the farm to the city than everything else."
Gander contributed a flicker of interest. "What you goin' to do about it?" he inquired.
"I'm going to think about it."
Gander relapsed. Cal, recalling his mental picture, saw the bear get down from the top of his post and resume the plodding of his well-worn circle. The flicker of interest had died in its birth.
But it had not. Suddenly Cal was aware of the germ of an idea burrowing into his consciousness. Leaping from Gander's unreceptive brain it was igniting the combustible material in his own. He knew it for a great moment, and he slipped away, eager for a solitude in which he might compress the nebula into a solid thought.
IN THE shade of the granary he evolved it. It *was very simple when reduced to terms; it simply meant that here, on the farm of Jackson Stake, he was to take his post-graduate course in sociology. He had put his science away, as a thing to be kept under safe cover while his health was mending, little dreaming that right here was the environment in which he could best develop it, and the raw material, for his experiments. This prairie homestead, prosperous, no doubt, in a gross kind of way, in the kind of way that is measured by acres and bushels and droves of stock, with its rough buildings, its simple customs, its labors, its drudgeries, its flickers of humor, its pathetic shadows, its unconscious tragedy—this was to be the school of his post-graduation. What characters, what material to his hand! Jackson Stake, himself a broadgirthed boy of sixty; Susie Stake, a domestic treadmill, but a treadmill with a heart, and a heart which, in some unaccounted way, had been set pounding again by the presence of the boy Reed; Gander and Grit, all-wise and self-sufficient; Hamilton, deep in the happy embarrassment of his love for Elsie Fyfe; even Reed, a strange light from out of the darkness— what subject matter for his study!
And Minnie. A gust of reaction swept him at the thought of including Minnie in his investigations; of impaling her as a rare specimen and subjecting her to the microscopic scrutiny of the eye of science. Yet not the least of the material to his hand was she, and science must not be impeded by the clamor of the heart.
As Cal turned these new thoughts in his mind he smiled at the complacent ignorance in which he had written his prize thesis on The Reaction of Industrialism upon the Rural Social Atmosphere. Here, now, was no musty text-book; here was life, throbbing, pulsating, grinding, to which the text-book bore no closer relationship than does the photograph to the living soul.
It was too tremendous to be taken standing, and Cal sought
poise in the prairie fields. Fancy injecting idealism into this clay; substituting art for materialism; living for being alive; implanting an intellectual consciousness; attuning minds to the infinite reactions of Truth; broadening horizons until they included the world, the universe itself! Cal walked the fields by himself, his soul afire with dreams; forgot his midday meal, and came out of his trance only when he discovered that the family were preparing to attend church in the district school-house, that the Dodge was drawn up at the door, and that Minnie was dressed apparently for walking rather than riding.
"Dad will drive, of course," she explained, "and Mother will ride with him. Hamilton is over at Double F's, and you three men will fill the back seat. I don't mind walking; indeed, I don't, I rather like it—"
So Cal said something about liking to walk, too, and with Reed in the back seat it would be crowded anyway, and it was only a mile and a half, wasn't it? and perhaps they had better start at once. And presently he and Minnie were tracking together the winding trail through the poplar groves to the highroad.
It may have been quite by accident, but Annie Frawdick was at the school door. "Hello, Minnie," she,greeted them; "who's your friend?"
"Oh, this is Mr. Beach, Cal Beach, Miss Frolic."
"Glad to meet you, Mr. Beach," said Annie, as she ex-
tended her hand. Then, while Minnie's head was turned aside for a moment to take note of those who were in the building, she added, sotto voce, "For the second time. Remember my predictions, and take them as a warning."
CAL found a strange new zest in his labors all that week. The thought that he could combine practical research in sociology—a sort of post-graduate course in his specialty—with the equally practical business of making a livelihood and re-establishing his health was a particularly encouraging and inspiring one. In an instant it drained the drudgery from his toil, revealing those rich social deposits which drudgery so often conceals; it gave purpose to his life; it invested the meanest surroundings with mystery and romance.
He had talked with loosened tongue to Minnie that night, until Gander, with inopportune impatience, had raced his engines to a roar as he awaited her in the car. She had sprung to her feet from the Ford cushion where they had sat at the front of his granary, with a deft hand whipping the dust from the fringe of her skirt as she arose.
"I must go," she had said. "Brothers get in a beastly hurry just when—"
But she stood before him, and did not go. 'Then :
"Can you drive a Dodge?"
"I can easily learn. It's a little different—"
"You ought to learn . Goodnight." And she was gone.
That was an idea. That was something to think about. It gave him a pleasurable little thrill of intoxication, like a very light wine. It may have been unscientific, but it was very enjoyable, and he nursed it until he fell asleep.
He must have slept lightly, for he was awakened by the first patter of rain on the §hingled roof. It was very dark; so dark he could not see his hand when he raised it before his face. The few drops of rain which had awakened him lulled and died down, then gathered again for a more vigorous assault. Pat a-pat,pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat, like some myriad-footed creature of the night they sprang upon his cedar shingles; he could smell the damp gdor of the cedar filtering through the roof and filling his little room. Presently there was a splash of water as it gathered in little pools under his eaves; and always the myriad-footed pat-a-patting on the roof.
IN THE morning the skies cleared and the rain stopped, and the seeding and plowing were resumed where they had been left off Saturday night. But as Cal followed his machine.up and down the length of the oat-field the vague schemes which had been pleasantly tormenting his mind began to take more definite form. Jackson Stake was an amiable and easy-going farmer, addicted, as Cal had learned, to only two vices: occasional over-indulgence in "formalin," and a mania for attending auction sales and buying wholly unnecessary and usually obsolete equipment which he dragged home behind a wagon, or in it, in exchange for a lien note so drawn as to complicate his title to all things here and hereafter. It was Mrs. Stake who had told Cal about it.
"They've perhibited liquor," she said, "an' that's all right as far as it goes. Jackson don' get goin' as often as he use' to, though I mus' say when he does start he goes further, an' now if they'd jus' perhibit auction sales p'rhaps we might get our feet under us. He fair loses his head at a auction sale. Go out to the boneyard some day; I call it the boneyard, jus' beyong the cow stables, an' see the old machin'ry he's got piled up there. Enough to mor'gage a township. An' me churnin' butter—"
That was the thought which came baek to Cal. Jackson was amiable and well disposed, and here lay the opportunity to remodel the farm as it should be remodelled. Of what use was his higher education if it could
not grapple with a situation of this kind; if he must leave this farm as crude and ugly as he had found it? Of course he would have to meet the opposition of Grit and Gander. The two geegees, he called them, in revenge for the ■sobriquet of D.D. That opposition would take the form of ridicule, of ponderous mock-respect and weighty speculations which he would be permitted to overhear as though by accident. But what of that? Minnie would understand—
"Why Minnie?" he chided himself. "This is a social experiment, not a love affair."
He took the first opportunity to investigate the "boneyard." It lay, as Mrs. Stake had said, behind the cow stable. It consisted of a considerable area of land strewn with remnants of all kinds of farm machinery and overgrown with a rank crop of last \ ear's weeds, still standing stiff and wooden after a winter's snow. Two self-binders, with reels in a state of partial collapse, and the hollow hull of an old grain separator, pirated by all the community in search of mtta! pullet s or fittings for more modern machines, first attracted his attention, and he gazed on them as one might gaze on the ribs of a wrecked ship protruding through the sand. As he strode about among the weeds he became aware that he was walking on a veritable pavement of discarded machinery. With a stick he prodded up a set of mower knives, the rim of an old wheel, some fragments of hay rake. Then a thought struck him.
Grit had said something about running the cream separator with the old Ford. It had been said in jest, but he would turn it to account. Among all this mechanical flotsam he surely would find the means to carry out the idea. He went to Jackson Stake.
"If I can rig up a machine to run the separator by using some of that old machinery and the Ford, will it be all right?" he asked.
The farmer regarded him with some curiosity, dropping his lower jaw the better to promote contemplation.
"Now what in hay-time put that into your head?" he finally inquired. »
"You've a great farm here, Mr. Stake," he began. "You've made the prairie blossom as the rose, as the poet says. Suppose you had had to cultivate all these fields with a spade?"
"It couldn't be done."
"Of course not. You do your farm work with power, not because it's easier, but because it's cheaper, and quicker, and it pays better. Now my idea is to carry that same principle into housework. I want to see this the most modern farm in Plainville district. I want the women to be talking after church, 'You should see the way Jackson Stake has fixed things up for his wife. Running the cream separator with power, if you please, and the washing machine, too.' And I'd like you to let me help you do that. That's all."
"Sounds the least bit like Minnie," said the farmer, "only you put it better. You don' threaten nothin', an' Minnie was strong on what she'd do an' what she wouldn't. Well, she left the farm over it, an' I ain't askin' her back. Not but what she's welcome, an' she comes out most ev'ry Sunday, an' she can have a home here when she wants it, but I ain't askin' her back. That's the kind of a badger I am." The farmer paused to let the weight of his pronouncement take effect. "Jus' the same, I ain't savin' but there's somethin' in your idea, so go to it, only don't waste nothin', an' don' use up all my smithy coal."
VVTTTH this authority Cal "went to it." He had a ' ' mechanical turn of mind, as well as a philosophic one, and his progress was easier than he expected. By milking time that evening he had the Ford backed up against the house, a tire off and the wheel blocked up, and a rope belt running from it through the window and on to a grooved pulley bolted to the separator. He found he would have to run the car in low gear to get the speed slew enough, and he had arranged a block of wood to hold the foot perlai in place. He was so enthused he hardly could wait until .Jackson Stake and his wife brought up the cans of frothy milk from the cow stable. When all was ready he started the engine, and, watch in hand, set the throtthfor the correct number of revolutions per minute. The separator set up its shrill whine" as an accompaniment to the rattle of the old motor, and there was a moment of tense nxict.cment, but the belt ran true on the pulleys, t hrskimmed milk and the cream began trickling out of their re pr-ctive tubes, and the success of his machine waestablished. It was great business.
Gander and Grit, strolling up from t hrhorse stable, took in the situation with amused interest. The elliptic wrinkles in Grit's face lengthened uni;! t| « v effected almost a complete circle, save for the interruption of his nose, arid Gander's Adam's apple war, spasmodically gulping his emotion.
"I often heard it said that some day they'd breed a Ford that 'ud give milk," said Grit, "but 1 never reckoned I'd live to see it."
Gander weighed his response. "Wonderful what you
'■;>, with a Ford an' an eddication. If I was a D.D. I
net i eould make the Dodge give cream cheese."
"Or lay ar, egg," Grit suggested.
"A fried egg," Gander exclaimed, but this flight of imagination proved too much for the two cronies. They caught arms, clinched, and in a moment were swaying and straining in a catch-as catch-can wrestling bout.
Mrs. Stake looked on incredulously, as though unable to accept the testimony of her eyes, and a little doubtful about the morality of skimming milk by such a method. But her husband was openly enthusiastic. His big red face was contorted with approval.
"That was a hum-dingin' good idea of ours, Cal," he said. "Nousebreakin'yourbackif Henry'll do it for you."
"Ain't the first back he's broke," Gander put in irrelevantly, but the farmer ignored the interruption. Plainly this was the moment to propose further innovations, and Cal struck at once. "Of course," he suggested, aligning himself with Jackson Stake's intimation of partnership in the good work, "what we really need is a small gasoline engine. It would run the washing machine too—
"What did I tell you?" said Grit. "And feed the canary—"
But the old farmer's imagination had been ignited. For a moment he glimpsed a world beyond the bear-tracks and the family post.
"I must watch out for one at an auction sale," he said, now bulging with constructive generosity. "Wish I'd bought an engine instead o' that manure spreader—"
"You had a good manure spreader already," Mrs. Stake reminded him, "but of course if it was somethin' o' use you wouldn' buy it, not for the soul or sake o' you. You'd trek home that ol' manure spreader, an' you with more lien notes than'll be paid this fall or next, but if it was somethin' useful—"
Her voice trailed off plaintively, but it occurred to Cal that the moment was singularly inopportune one for nagging. Now was the time to get Jackson Stake committed to a program of local uplift. He wheedled the farmer to one side, and before the bowl of the separator stopped growling he had been constituted a committee of one with carte blanche to carry out improvements—provided they didn't cost anything.
T T E BEGAN with an effort to revise the farmyard on some sort of geometrical basis. With the help of Big Jim and his associates he straightened the granaries about and lined them up, and hauled the frame blacksmith shop, which had been occupying a position twentyseven point five degrees from north of the horse stable, into alignment with the granaries. The three frame buildings, now in a straight row with the house, presented quite an avenue. "Beach Boulevard," Gander christened it, and "reckoned" there should be a policeman on traffic duty at the corner as he had seen upon his only vist to Winnipeg. But Cal smiled and went on. Wait until Minnie came out from town Saturday night! See what Minnie would have to say about his—his social experiments. She was a bright girl, Minnie, and she would understand.
It was on Friday that the happiness of the great week dropped into a gulf, as one walking with his head in the clouds may step over a precipice. Cal was working about the yard when Reed returned from the school swinging his lunch bag at the end of a strap. The boy was tanned and brown and happy; as Cal looked fondly down at him he seemed to have grown years since their camp at the head of the lake, less than two weeks ago. And to-day his face was more radiant than ever, for his was the joy of the child who has great news to tell.
"Oh, Daddy X, do you know? There's a boy in school and he's a bad boy, and his mother's bad, too!"
"Why, Reed! That is a very serious thing to say. You mustn't say such things about boys, and especially about their mothers."
"But it's true, Daddy X! All the boys say so, and his mother's bad too, and worse than he is."
"Reed, you musin' it But why do they say it?"
"Well, he's got no father, and that's why, although I don't just see— At any rate it's very bad, and to-day we chased him nearly all the way home, and some of the boys called him a bad name, at least I thought it was bad, but they say it's not bad when it's true, and he fought with one of them and got knocked down and it made his nose bleed and served him right, didn't it? And then he ran off home crying. You bet he was scared."
"And you took part in that?" It was the sternness of Cal's voice, rather than his words, that brought Reed up with a start. The child's face whitened a little; it was not often that Daddy X spoke to him like that.
"Yes—why?" he faltered.
"Because, in the first place, it's cowardly. A bunch of children can be as cruel as a pack of wolves. Young savages, every one of them! And you were cruel as well as cowardly."
"But, Daddy X" the boy's lip was trembling—"it was true; they all said it was true; he's a bad boy, and his mother is bad, and lie has no father. It is bad to have no father, isn't it, Daddy X?"
Cal discovered that his sympathies were in sharp collision with the moral law, but he took firm ground. "No, Reed, it is not bad, at least as far as the boy is concerned.
The boy is as good—as good as you are. And perhaps his mother, too, is good—as good as your mother was."
IT WAS their custom, when they talked of Reed's -*• mother, always to speak with subdued voices and exalted mind, as of something hallowed and holy. Reed's voice and mind now instantly adapted themselves to their custom; the tremble died out of his lips, and in his eyes came a seraphic light which set Cal's heart thumping down the dark avenues of the past, down to the tragedy of Celesta Beach, and the night on which she had laid her soul bare before him.
"But my mother is with the angels, Daddy X," the child reminded him. "The angels came for her, and she said that verse of mine—where you got my name—and went home with them."
Suddenly Cal knew himself to be of a lower order than the child, and he could only nod in silent assent. That which to him remained a flicker of hope, not quite extinguished by the gusts of his practical learning, was to Reed a beacon of light, undimmed and unbounded.
There was a minute of close heart-concord between
them. Then,
"Daddy X, who was my father? You often tell me about my mother, but you never tell me about my father. Was he good, like my mother? Of course I know you're my Daddy X, but you're not really my father, are you? Just my Daddy X?"
So it had come to this, and so soon. The pledge that he had given, that Reed should never know—how could he carry it, concealed, unguessed, through all his life? This at eight; Reed was only eight, and already he was ferreting into his heart with this bitterest of all questions.
At all costs he must save the child. He must find an explanation that would not outrage the righteousness of Plainville; if it reflected glory or sympathy upon Reed, so much the better. He had it:
"You had a father, all right," he said. "He went to the war—and he did not come back. It is very sad, and that is why I have not liked to talk to you about it." Lying did not come easily to Cal Beach. The words seemed to lacerate his throat and he pressed his fingers about his neck. "He was a good man," he added; "you must always be proud of him."
The child received this intelligence with a gravity beyond his years. "I am proud of him," he said. "But"— and again there was the leap of light in his eyes—"you don't know that he has been killed? Some day he may come back—then he will find me, though he has to search all the world over for me, like the good knights searching for the Holy Grail! Oh, Daddy X!"
For a moment the boy pondered great possibilities;
then, satisfied, he ran off for his after-school sandwich of bread and jam, and Cal was left dazed, humiliated, caught in a hatred that swept down upon him, engulfing him.
The incident filled him with an overwhelming unhappiness, and he was silent and morose at the supper table. But later in the evening he heard the unwonted sound of singing coming from the house. Before the open window he stopped, held by the picture which it disclosed. Mrs. Stake was sitting in the "room," the sacred precinct with the ancestral crayon enlargements, into which Cal had not yet been admitted; her old form settled into a low rocker, her head back, her glasses thrust up on her brow, her thinning grey hair drawn sharply into a dwindling nob that once had been her glory. And on her lap was the boy Reed, his legs dangling over the sharp ridge of her own ; his body snuggled against hers, his right arm thrown upward andabout her neck. But it was her eyes that held his attention ; there was in them something of that same light that filled Reed's when they spoke of his mother. And as she rocked and held the boy she sang:
"Twilight is stealing over the sea,
Shadows are falling dark on the lee,
Borne on the night wind voices of yore Come from that far-off shore."
AS CÁL watched the singer and listened to her song he ■GA was held by a wonder of what voices from memory's far-off shores had touched again to love and romance the stern old heart of Mrs. Stake. He watched as her hands caressed the boy's legs; as they closed about his little body. He was stirred by this revelation, but stirred more poignantly still by something that defied analysis, that groped down into his being and held him with the clutch of a primal passion. For all his fine love for Reed his essential parental instinct had not yet been kindled, and it was that which now caught him, groping, smothering, somewhere in the uncharted mystery of existence, He drew quietly away as one who has chanced unwittingly upon a sacred privacy, but once more his heart was swept clean of the gust of hatred that had seized upon it.
A little later Reed joined him at their granary and they went to bed together, the boy saying his simple verse and ■ then rolling his little frame into his protector's arms, for a chill night wind was creeping over the plains. But before he fell asleep he had a matter to settle.
"Mrs. Stake sang to me to-night, Daddy X," he said, "and she talked to me about .her boy that is gone; her little Jackson, she called him. She says I make her think
of him. Why should I make her think of him, Daddy X?" "I don't know, Reed."
"And she asked me if I would call her Grandma. May I, Daddy X?"
"If it pleases her, and you, you may."
And, this weighty matter settled, they fell asleep.
ABOUT four o'clock next afternoon, Jackson Stake found his hired man busy repairing the fence that, in its better days, had enclosed the family garden. He looked on while Cal drove a staple, and shook the top of the post with his big fist, reassuringly.
"Gander's off bummin' with the car, ain't he?" he remarked, presently. "Nosayin' when he'll be back, and somun's got to go to Plainville for Minnie. The missus 's 'phoned for some things she's to bring out for to-morrow. —Say, wha's to prevent you goin' for Minnie with that ol' skim-milker o' yours?"
Cal's heart gave a most unscientific bump. What, indeed!
"Nothing that I know of," he said, as casually as he could. "That is, if you let me draw on your gasoline barrel. And you'll have to crank the separator to-night by hand."
"Strike me! When I take holt o' that ol' sep'rator I jus' naturally scare the cream out o' it. But I ain't the twister I useta be. The old days—when Mother useta set the milk in the milk house an' skim it with her front finger—those were the days! But once you get a new idee—. Well, someun's got to go for Minnie, an' it looks like you. Shouldn't wonder but you're a bit lonesome for the while lights, yourself, and Plainville'll do you good." He spoke with friendly sarcasm of his country town. "Don' spend all your money on the op'ra."
It was an hour, at his best pace, before Cal could be ready. Not only must he shave and change, but he must oil and grease Antelope, replace the tire which had been taken off for the cream separator operations, and generally tighten up the clattering joints. So intent was he upon these matters that not until the last moment did he think of Reed. But Reed had gone gopher hunting with Trixie early in the afternoon and was probably miles away over the prairie.
It was plain the boy could not go, and in spite of his loyalty Cal felt his heart thump again. Not quite so tre-
mendously, but still it certainly did thump. At any rate, he reasoned to himself, they might be late getting home; Minnie had some purchases to make, had she not?—and Reed would be better in bed. And again there came a little bump—bump.
Cal set off joyously, out through the poplar groves; down the main road by the school; glancing up half expecting to see Annie Frawdic, until he recalled that it was Saturday; then, still following the principal road, across country in a south-westerly direction to Plainville. The little car ate up the distance greedily and in less than half an hour Cal was dusting down the main thoroughfare of the town. Two rows of automobiles, representing all grades of value and condition, were lined against the cement curbs. Cal found an opening among them and brought his dog-eared Ford boldly along side of the pretentious car of some wealthy farmer.
"Big car, big mortgage," Cal quoted from the philosophy of Jackson S'-ake, as his eye took in the beautiful lines of Antelope's neighbor. "No flirtations, now, Ante, with that polished dandy! Remember, virtue becomes the poor."
He paused with one foot on the running-bo'ard and patted her tattered upholstery sentimentally,'encouraging high resolves with a quotation,
"Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.' "
Groping in his pocket he found a key, and whimsically turned it in the lock with which a previous owner had equipped the Ford. "Not as a precaution against theft, but as a compliment to the car," he exclaimed.
He had intended going straight to Mrs. Goode's boarding house, but a glance at his watch showed six o'clock. Minnie would be at supper; she would insist that he join her, and that would be leaving the check at the wrong plate. He decided to look over the town and find a place where he could buy a meal.
The main thoroughfare of Plainville was wider than the principal street of many a metropolis; it was a broad, unpaved traffic canal shored by banks of cement sidewalk. He regarded it with interest. This was, no doubt, the "Main Street" he had read about, that mercenary and visionless monster, conceived of social inertia, born of an existence drab, ignorant, commonplace. But to Cal Main Street seemed broad, cheerful, innocuous.
A bench in front of the Palace Hotel was congenially
occupied with Saturday evening loungers, who regarded Cal silently but with mild interest. Strangers came and went in Plainville but not so numerously as to escape attention. A dingy waiting room, papered with announcements of Plainville's "Big Day" on the TwentyFourth, and of the seed grain fair which had occurred the previous March, opened off the main entrance. It was deserted except for a man in shirt sleeves behind the counter which barricaded one corner, displaying an assortment of chewing gum and cheap cigars. He was engaged in performing an autopsy upon a speedometer with a screw driver, and showed no sign of being diverted from his purpose.
"Can I get a meal here?' Cal asked at length.
"Nope," said the proprietor of the Palace Hotel, without looking up. "Don' serve meals since pro'bition." With the screw driver he pursued something in the vitals of the mechanical corpse before him.
"Yet I suppose people continue to eat?" Cal ventured to suggest
No answer, but hot pursuit.of the elusive something.
CUDDENLY a screw flew out and across the counter. ^ Both men grabbed for it, but Cal got it first, and with great deliberation tucked it into his waistcoat pocket.
For the first time the hotel keeper raised his eyes, exposing a broad, bovine face. "Well, what the hell?" he inquired.
"Now, old Oxo, just pay attention to me for a minute. Where do I eat?"
A latent sense of humor, not less than a quick appraisal of Cal's biceps, came to the support of the Boniface in a situation charged with possibilities.
"Try the Chink at the end o' the block," he grinned. Cal surrendered the screw and they parted friends.
Cal found the Chinese restaurant occupying a building of plain, unpainted boards. For a moment he studied in amusement the sign which proclaimed "No Sing—Wun Lung." Evidently it had been perpetrated by a painter with a zest for a practical joke, but the subtle humor was lost on the proprietor, whose adventures in English rarely escaped the borders of his bill of fare. Through the uncurtained windows Cal could see a dozen men eating at plain wooden tables, after the manner of the farm staff at Jackson Stake's. He turned in and joined them. His check was forty cents.
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After supper he strolled about the little town, making a mental inventory of it. The business section crowded about a single street; back of that were churches, a number of modest residences, with two or three making some claim to pretention; a couple of lumber yards; a large oval roofed skating and curling rink, now deserted and dank with its lingering ice, and a big red brick school house standing in spacious grounds surrounded by a double row of Manitoba maples, many of them obviously dead.
At Mrs. Goode's gate he met Minnie coming down the short walk that led to the boarding house door. She had been watching for him from the screened veranda and had timed her progress to a nicety. She wore a smart dress of some navy blue stuff, relieved with a dash of red about the neck and cuffs, and around that V-shaped aperture, not too modest and not too daring, through which she conceded a glimpse of a white and well formed throat and bosom. Her hat was of blue, in keeping with her dress, and carried only a perky red feather to hint that its sombreness by no means suggested the mood of the active little head it covered.
"I was afraid you had had trouble," she remarked, as though they had parted an hour before; "I turned down a chair
beside me at supper, expecting to have the honor—"
"That was good of you. The honor was shared by two other farm hands—unappreciative, I am afraid—at the table of our celestial friend, No Sing. The cause of his musical imitations is indicated, with refreshing frankness, on his sign—
"You mean you went to the Chink's for supper," the practical Minnie interrupted him, short-cutting through his verbiage. "And I with a chair turned down, in defiance of the glances and quips of the other boarders! Well—"
She shot at him a look, half of protest and half of raillery. Her skin was pink and clear, and her eyes had a dance in them like sunlight on a ripply stream.
"I'm sorry," he pleaded, dropping his voice. "How could I know?"
"You might have known. I would have known,. . . Well, I hâve some shopping to do. Will you come?"
He saw that the red effect around her throat was obtained by lacing a ribbon through eyelets in her waist; all her dress suggested simplicity with dignity, and he contrasted her with one or two frippishly clad young women he had seen on Main Street. Minnie had learned the first principle of art.
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text: Tampa Cake Girl - Flavor Roasted Cauliflower SignIn or Register My Pantry Home Recipes Articles & Publications Contact Coming Soon Meal Planner Party Planner Weights & Measures Science & Cooking Cooking Trivia Cooking Humor Flavor Roasted Cauliflower - Recipe #114 Flavor Roasted Cauliflower Views: 41 Previous Recipe Next Recipe WordPress: https://tampacakegirl.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/flavor-roasted-cauliflower/ Jan 19, 2015 Comments: 9 Replies: 9 Ingredients: Cauliflower Pam, Olive Oil or Regular flavor Garlic Salt Buffalo flavor popcorn seasoning (I used Kernel Seasons, sold in the popcorn isle) It's a new year and many of you have decided to start the year out healthy. So to accommodate my low carb people and those of us that want to watch your calories, I have a great snack, appetizer or eat it as a side dish. This recipe is fast, easy and delicious. The flavor combinations are limitless. I made Buffalo flavor, garlic and lastly, butter/Parmesan cheese flavor. All were delicious. Wash and dry cauliflower. You can do this ahead of time and let it dry on the countertop. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Break off pieces of cauliflower into florets. I cut off the stem, that's up to you. Try to keep the pieces in a uniform size so they will roast and be done at the same time. (Save the small pieces for your salad or just eat them!) Spray cauliflower with Pam. Spray it well. Sprinkle on your choice of flavoring or do several, like I did. Bake on a baking sheet for 20 – 30 minutes. I loved all of the flavors. Hard to believe something so tasty was healthy. I am sure it would be great for broccoli, or any vegetable. Enjoy! Diane March 1, 2015 at 7:47 pm Use taco seasoning, chili seasoning, ranch or Italian dressing mixes .. Put florets in plastic bag or container with flavors and shake to coat .. Use Rosemary, oregano, parsley, cilantro .. Alone or in combinations .. Tampa Cake Girl March 1, 2015 at 8:22 pm Thanks Diane. The flavor possibilities are endless. Nicky February 6, 2015 at 2:55 am This is a great way to add flavor to cauliflower. Tampa Cake Girl February 6, 2015 at 2:57 am It's so full of flavor. No need to dip it in any sauces. I am making it again tomorrow! Joanne/WineladyCooks February 5, 2015 at 5:19 pm Cauliflower is the way to go on the low carb diets. I love the flavor of roasted cauliflower. Looks delicious! Tampa Cake Girl February 6, 2015 at 3:00 am Thank you! I loved it too! Going to make it again tomorrow. jengwen74 February 5, 2015 at 4:08 pm We love these with ketchuo which I am sure makes it less healthy! However, the 10 year old will eat cauliflower! Tampa Cake Girl February 6, 2015 at 3:00 am It's very yummy! homemadefoodjunkie February 5, 2015 at 4:32 am Wow! This is the first time I've seen a roasted flavored cauliflower recipe. I have to try this! Tampa Cake Girl February 5, 2015 at 10:26 am Thank you! I love this love carb, low calorie recipe. I am making it again today. I think you will love it. Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog January 27, 2015 at 6:29 pm Congratulations Cyd! Your cauliflower has been featured at our Simple Supper Tuesday Linky Party at Moore or Less Cooking!! Nettie LINK: http://mooreorlesscooking.com/2015/01/26/simple-supper-tuesday-linky-party-46/ Tampa Cake Girl January 27, 2015 at 6:31 pm Thank you Nettie! I can't wait to make it again. Thank you for featuring my recipe! Joyce Wheeler January 23, 2015 at 8:37 pm I love this idea! I have seen other recipes, but have to try one. Yours look really good, followed you here from the Weekend Social Tampa Cake Girl January 23, 2015 at 9:27 pm Thank you Joyce! It was so delicious I ate all of what I prepared. I can't wait to make it again! Heidy L. McCallum January 20, 2015 at 1:59 am OMG I love cauliflower and this looks amazing- I can't wait to try this recipe!! Tampa Cake Girl January 20, 2015 at 2:01 am Thanks Heidy! This was so tasty. Hard to believe it was low calorie and low carb. I think you will love this. Christine Stephens January 19, 2015 at 4:24 pm What a fantastic way to serve Cauliflower! I love it roasted! Tastes just like popcorn! Thanks! Sent from Chris's iPad Tampa Cake Girl January 19, 2015 at 4:25 pm Thank you Christine. It tastes like the flavor you use to flavor popcorn. Copyright © 2013 - 2020 | Tampa Cake Girl | All Rights Reserved | Wed Oct 28 02:23am Web Design & Hosting by: II Web Design


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i never said that high end studio gear is no good because it uses external PSUs. Im just pointing out that the original Mini didnt have an external PSU. And therefore the new one is not the same and not likely to last as long.facon wrote: You'll find that a large portion of high end studio gear uses external PSUs. I wouldn't hesitate to own any of it simply because of an external psu.
And i didnt say you should not buy it purely because it has an external PSU. The synth is incredible in its build quality and sound and its simply a beautiful beast reborn. I brought one without hesitation and i feel lucky to have it. Your responses are suggesting i said a whole lot of negative things i simply did not.
Its just not going to last as long if you use it the same way as the original. The PSUs are gonna fry. Unless you turn the thing off at the wall instead of at the front panel "power" switch like you used to be able to do on the original. No mention of this important difference to make the synth last just as long in the manual. And i think many users are going to fall victim to this, and the PSUs are gonna be burning out left right and centre around the world from normal wear and tear of running 168 hours a week. No power supply can run for 30 years non stop. Thats all im pointing out. A lot of ppl arent even aware the new re-issue has the "line-lump" PSU until they open the box and discover its different to the original. The magazine review i read didnt mention it. Hell i didnt know until i unpacked it. And then my heart just sank. But hey in this disposable world things arent designed to last the way they used to anymore, i guess i should just get over it. Worry about it later...after all a few years is like, forever away right, lets just live for now and make some music today...deal with the future when it comes. Lets all be Gen Y without a care in the world.
Just remember, your minimoog will sound thin and lack its magical modjo unless you use the ORIGINAL ISSUED MOOG POWER SUPPLY from 2016. Hell i had a guy at a Hifi Show try and convince me with a straight face that he could hear the difference between a $10 kettle power lead and a $1000 POWER KETTLE LEAD !!(yes it exists)...and thats just the power LEAD. So this should be a no-brainer...lets see, the later year/batch PSUs used different caps, the 2016 version had its caps made in Taiwan, they sourced the caps for the 2018 one from Korea. Theres obviously a difference....It has to be the 2016 one. You can hear the difference already...you know its true...youre getting sleepy...come to my Ebay store..theyre at a special price of only $499....come....


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As Rangers fans will know the club announced the POTY nominations a day or two ago, and while four of the candidates were, to varying levels, legitimate contenders, the reaction from ourselves and our fellow fans to the fifth inclusion really did scream of a club out of touch with a portion of its support.
Don't get us wrong, James Tavernier hasn't been absolute garbage this season – indeed, he even had a decent spell earlier this year where his defending and attacking were both looking quite solid for once.
But therein lies the problem – 'for once'. How could Tavernier be included with a straight face in this competition?
We look at the case for? He has goals and assist, and a lot of both. There is no argument on our part over the assists – 11 assists in the league tells its own story – he tops the SPL in that regard. He definitely plays a huge part in getting goals for his team mates. And of course, 11 goals too, which is, for a right back, a stunning return. But the caveat? Most of them are penalties.
But nevertheless, there's certainly a case for his stats at the least.
But the negative reaction to his being among the nominations rather shows that his numbers don't seem to mean enough to supporters – that his general game and quality and overall form have not been justifying enough to put him among these names.
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Last night the U18s' FA Youth Cup dreams were shattered by a strong Hillingdon Borough side as Buntingford slumped to a 4-1 defeat.
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- Towards the bottom, in the Node Tiles section, turn on Show Full Input and Output Names on VOP Nodes.
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This dynamic course will challenge you to develop all the skills you need for a career in air travel, tourism and airport management. From foundation year to your final year, you will gain insight into a range of topics such as airport operations, security, safety and risk management, sustainable development, changing consumer behaviour, international standards and impact of emerging markets.
You'll develop your management expertise, resilience and people skills, and explore management on regional, national and international scales – becoming proficient in all aspects of this complex profession.
Taught by experts with ongoing research and strong ties to the industry, including local players such as Cunard and Carnival, you will also be able to benefit from a programme of guest lectures from key players in the industry – informing your learning with the latest debates and best practice, and providing the opportunity to apply your knowledge to practical challenges.
And a wide range of embedded field trips including local sites and international destinations such as Bruges, Athens or Belfast – as well as the option to undertake a year's study abroad – you'll build a globalised understanding of the fascinating tourism industry and air travel's critical role.
Strong industry links with major tourism related employers eg local airports, Cunard, Carnival P&O, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard etc.
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Solent's international airline and airport management degree is ideally suited for those seeking to develop their all-round management and interpersonal skills whilst focusing on developing their leisure, air travel and tourism knowledge.
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The tutors responsible for your individual units are active and experienced in a range of disciplines. Many have worked as practitioners in the air travel, tourism and cruise industries, or published work that has become a reference text for other academics, students and tourism managers. They are passionate about sharing their knowledge and experience with you, introducing real scenarios and case studies from the industry for you to analyse and apply your knowledge to. Your studies are informed by their ongoing research, as well as the wider social contexts at the very forefront of the air travel, tourism and cruise management body of knowledge.
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The most predominant sin we find in the Bible that stopped the rain of God's blessing from falling was idolatry. Maybe you are thinking, "Well, that's great, but it doesn't really apply. I'm not tempted to go to the nearest pagan shrine and bow down and worship a carved image."
Hold on, though. As you read the New Testament you begin to realize it has a lot to say to us about idolatry. For example, 1 Corinthians 10:14 says, Flee from idolatry, and 1 John 5:21 says, Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Wycliffe in his commentary says, "An idol is anything which occupies the place due to God." An idol is anything in your life that competes with God.
Colossians 3:5 says, …covetousness, which is idolatry. In other words, your stuff can become an idol. Greed can become an idol; money can become your idol. If anything becomes the main pursuit of your life, other than God, then that thing becomes an idol.
It can be your job, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your husband, your wife, or even a child. It can be a sport, a hobby, fame, anything that comes before God in your life.
I once saw an interview of one of my favorite golfers. He was a brilliant golfer who had won major tournaments. In the interview he said, "I've had a love affair with the game of golf. But I want to tell you, it cost me my marriage. It's cost me my relationship with my kids. Golf has been my god."
The interviewer asked him, "If you had all of it to do over again, what would you do differently?" He said, "Nothing. I'd do it all the same."
You will never experience God's blessing if there is an idol in your life. Is there?
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|November 15th, 2007
Topic: Contractors' Actions Labeled Unjustified
November 15, 2007
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FBI Probe Continues in Blackwater Case
By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post Staff Writer
FBI investigators believe that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater Worldwide security contractors in Baghdad on Sept. 16 was unjustified under State Department rules for the private guards, U.S. officials said. But possible prosecution is weeks, if not months, away and remains complicated by uncertainty over what U.S. law might cover the guards' actions.
The shooting deaths of three other civilians in the same incident may have been within guidelines for the use of deadly force, officials said.
The preliminary FBI conclusions were reached after an on-site investigation in Baghdad last month. But officials said yesterday that the inquiry is ongoing and that the FBI, together with the U.S. attorney for the District, is still conducting interviews in the case.
They will eventually provide a "prosecutive memo" to the Justice Department's National Security Division, with an outline of the evidence and an assessment on whether prosecutable crimes were committed. The division head will determine whether to submit the case to a grand jury.
The investigators discovered that some of those who died were attempting to flee and found no evidence supporting Blackwater's contention that the contractors were fired on and shot back in self-defense. The incident occurred as the guards tried to stop traffic at Baghdad's Nisoor Square to allow an expected U.S. diplomatic convoy to pass.
The FBI findings were first reported Tuesday night by the New York Times. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said yesterday that it would be "inappropriate for us to comment on evidence or the nature or direction of the investigation."
Blackwater spokeswoman Anne E. Tyrrell said that the company will support holding any of its employees accountable "if official findings conclude that someone was complicit in wrongdoing." But she said that "the investigation remains underway and, to the best of our understanding, the key people involved in the incident have yet to even speak with authorities."
The four or five Blackwater guards who allegedly fired their weapons did not speak to the FBI during the investigation in Baghdad because "at the time they did not have legal counsel," Tyrrell said. Blackwater has since provided legal advice and has not suggested that they retain outside attorneys.
Immediately after the shootings, the guards were questioned by agents of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), which oversees their contract to protect civilian U.S. officials in Iraq. Those interviews, however, were conducted under legal protections against self-incrimination that are granted to government employees and cannot be used by FBI investigators or in a potential prosecution.
The Justice Department's concerns over the possibility that government evidence could be "tainted" by exposure to the initial, off-limits DS investigation increased yesterday when ABC News published on its Web site a written statement given by one of the guards to DS agents on Sept. 18. The guard, identified only as "Paul," described a chaotic scene in which he perceived threats from an approaching passenger car, a "red bus" and "a man in a blue button down shirt with black pants" pointing an assault rifle. In each case, he said, he "engaged" the threat and stopped it.
Possible prosecution is also complicated by the uncertainty surrounding the laws under which the guards might be charged. Although security contractors working for the Defense Department can be held liable under military-related statutes, it remains unclear whether those laws also cover guards working for the State Department. The White House opposes legislation approved last month by the House to extend U.S. law to all contractors. The office of the State Department's legal counsel said last night that it has reached agreement with Senate sponsors of an alternative version of the measure.


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The Pad A Cheek® Original is designed for the lower strap on most Standard Headgear and slides over your CPAP mask straps to prevent red marks and irritation on the face. They are made of two layers of the softest breathable micro fleece material, and makes wearing your CPAP mask much more comfortable.
The Pad A Cheek design allows you to select up to three layers of padding between your face and headgear straps. Just slide the wire tool through the Pad A Cheek and thread the headgear strap through one of the layers. Very easy to use with the instructions included in your package.
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