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Welp, I made it. To India. Kolkata, to be exact. I know, it's nothing special. But I'm still going to write about it like this is the coolest thing you could possibly ever read about! (Also, this is really long. So if you want to skip to the bottom for some fun pictures, please do!)
I left Denver at ~3p on January 3rd. After a night in which I probably should've refrained from drinking whiskey and staying up until 4 to watch USA/Canada Junior Hockey (With gold medal game implications!) with my cousin….but didn't… So that started me out right.
After a pretty solid mid-morning freakout worrying about transferring planes in Mumbai (everything I read about it said it was a ridiculous hassle, poorly done, and difficult for first-timers at the airport) I headed to DEN to depart. I was pretty certain I had (mostly) everything packed. I'm still not sure if I've forgotten anything, but only time will tell.
The first leg of my flight was a 9.5 hour stretch from Denver direct to Frankfurt, Germany, complete with a roughly 6 hour layover, landing somewhere around 6a. I think. it's all sort of a dream-confused haze at this point. It also feels as much like it was a week ago as it does that it was yesterday. The flight itself was uneventful though I was rather disappointed in the Lufthansa business class accommodations. I was much more impressed with both Philippine Airlines and EVA airlines the last time I flew biz, but at the same time — who cares. First world problems, right? 9.5 hour flight with maybe an hour of sleep. Definitely should have slept for the vast majority of this flight, given that local time upon landing was early morning — but I'm clearly not one for doing what I SHOULD do. Alas.
At FRA I hung out in the lounge, took care of some emails, charged up my appliances, had a couple glasses of water — didn't have any food because despite my announced "displeasure" with the food — they do love to feed you like every three hours! While sitting in the lounge I felt a coughing fit take me over. I'd love to say it was from being sick or dehydrated (well I was probably dehydrated but that wasn't it) I'm fairly certain while not having slept on the one flight I absolutely NEEDED to sleep on, I was sitting in an exhaustion haze, and tilted my head back slightly and my own drool ran down the wrong pipe.
Needless to say, lots of coughing ensued. It also made my eyes water to the point that it looked like I'd been sobbing. I'm pretty sure everyone around me thought my boyfriend had just broken up with me.
Shortly after I left, deciding to make my way down to my gate a little early. The boarding in Frankfurt was, strangely, a giant clusterfuck by Western standards. I would've expected a little better at the global home of Lufthansa (considering I was flying Lufthansa) but the announcement to board folks with children, the elderly, or anyone with reduced mobility seemed to be met with everyone thinking it was time to board, with a small subset of us waiting in the business/first class line waiting our turn while half the plane boarded ahead of us. Not that that was a bit deal in any way, just…odd. It did lead to one German lady getting very angry and yelling in stilted English at a family, though, so that was fun.
Boarded, sat, uneventful 7.5 hour flights (with an hour and a half nap.) Then…Then I arrived in Mumbai.
I was nervous about Mumbai because everything I read said it was a horror show. Buses between terminals, hellishly long lines, chaos and lack of organization… It gave me a pretty fun panic attack just before I left (which was aided and abetted by being hungover and a lack of sleep) because I'm the kind of guy who wants to know everything about everything before I make a decision, or get thrust into a situation where things are unfamiliar. I think a lot of times I'm pretty easy-going and roll with unfamiliar situations reasonably well, but battling being exhausted (shut up you baby!) and traveling internationally? All bets are off!
It turned out to be not nearly as bad as I had read online, but it was certainly an interesting experience. After the flight landed, it took about 25 minutes to deplane, get to immigration, and pass through. Then it took over an hour for my bag to arrive. After about another 15 minutes I'd passed through customs. Following what I'd read online (you have to gather your baggage, then get to the domestic terminal several miles away) I debated either exiting the airport and hailing a cab, or following the more traditional route and taking the free shuttle bus. Despite the warnings of time (I still had about 3.5 hours until my flight boarded) I decided to go through the shuttle bus route. It took about an hour and a half to get through a secondary security screening checkpoint, then wait, then board a crappy old tour bus, and take a 20 minute riding tour from one end of the airport to the other to get to the Domestic terminal that's several miles away.
This link http://goo.gl/maps/sKqov shows you an overview of the airport. On the east side you can see the International terminal, and then separated by runways, you can see the domestic terminal on the left. It's a hike.
Free, but it definitely took a long time. Once arriving in the domestic terminal I just followed the crowd, tried to figure out where I was going, etc. I entered, looked briefly at a video board, and saw a flight headed to Kolkata from gate A8, so I knew where I was headed. After following well-marked pathways with visible signs I checked in for my flight, and re-checked my bag. The young lady at the counter told me that my flight was at gate A8, and off I went! I got through security, took a seat and jacked someone's wifi and started doing all the usual updates to facebook and twitter and whatever else.
My flight was scheduled to board at 6:10, and on the video board I could see that time listed. Though, interestingly, there was a windows error box on the screen so the name/number/destination of the flight was blocked. Also there was a lot of American Christmas music playing in the terminal, which makes less than zero sense to me.
Fast forward to about 5:40, 30 minutes before my flight is supposed to board, and all at once everyone gets up and gets in line. So, I join the party! As I get to the gate, the agent takes my boarding pass and looks at me as if I've got three heads. He looks at the boarding pass again and says, what airline are you looking for? I said Jet Airways. He looks at me again. Looks at the boarding pass again. This is Air India, he says, you have the wrong flight. He tells me to go back and check the monitors to find the right gate. So I go back to check but my flight isn't listed anywhere on the monitors, so I go back to the gate and he tells me to go find some Jet Airwas personnel. At this point it's about 20 minutes before my flight boards and I can't even find it listed. I'm starting to get worried. I find another gate agent, he tells me that my flight is at gate 18, and not A8. Oh. Well. Oh what's that? I also have to exit security and go back through? SO EXCITED. So I leave security, go back through the other security line (nearly 20 minutes) feels slow as death. From my vantage point I can see the gate I'm looking for, and there's no info listed on the video board for it. This on top of not being able to find my flight on any of the video boards in the other gate? At this point I'm officially alarmed.
After finally getting through security I reach the gate, and just as I'm about to step up and ask if it's 9w 619 to Kolkata, they put the info on the board and invite us to board. Woo! I'm finally almost there! But what's interesting is that by "boarding process" they mean scanning your boarding pass, and then sending you outside to figure out what bus to get on. Yes, bus. It had a sign outside saying "Kolkata" but I still probably asked a dozen people if that was the bus for the Kolkata plane. The last thing I wanted (And probably Mumbai Airport Security, though not the paying passengers) was to run down a row of buses knocking on doors yelling "WHO IS GOING TO KOLKATA AND CAN I COME?!") Thankfully I had everything right. But still, a bus?! Then the bus drives you off, and goes to your plane. It drops you at the door of a 737, you climb up, and then off you go. Really….really strange. In fact, if you check this link: http://goo.gl/maps/qXXhr you'll see a plane parked sort of at the bottom left. That's where you exit and board the buses, and just northeast of that you'll see a bus driving up the tarmac, followed by a couple more planes parked at the top right corner. It's just so..odd. The other end of the terminal has real, actual, honest-to-goodness jetbridges, but not my end! Oh well. All's well that ends well. Another 2:40 flight to Kolkata, some breakfast, and about an hour and a half of sleep. Couldn't have ended better! Except I really, really wish I could figure out why the plane had a stilted loop of "jingle bells" on repeat…
Landing in Kolkata was a lot like taking off in Mumbai. Walk down the plane steps, get on a bus, take the bus to the terminal. I walked in the door and was maybe 30 feet inside trying to find which baggage carousel was mine when a gentleman started yelling my name (I'm the only white guy on the flight, natch) so it's pretty easy to figure out I'm the person he's supposed to be picking up!
We meet, we chat, luggage starts coming out, and I get my bag and we depart. At this point everything really does feel like a crazy haze. The ride to the hotel felt a lot like what Vietnam felt like, so it wasn't hugely overwhelming or surprising. But it was a quick drive, I checked in, and promptly started writing this blog (only to fall asleep for 6 hours in the middle of the day) then come back to finish it.
So oh boy. Long trip, not awful. I'm exhausted. I had a clifbar and a beer for dinner because I'm not 100% ready to dive into anything with 'Paneer' or 'Rogan Josh' in the name yet. But, tomorrow! I'll also have some less insanely-tired thoughts and observations soon, since, you know, that's why you pay me.


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Date: November 7th, 2014
In 1982, the TS808 (revered at this point as sort of the Unholy Grail of overdrives) was succeeded by the TS9; and much to Ibanez's disbelief, presumably, the TS9 went on to out-shine the original TS808 in the stomp-box overdrive market.
Oddly enough, internally, the TS9 is almost identical to the TS808; the only real alterations made in development of the second iteration of the Tube Screamer are 1) the on/off switch, which now took up about a third of the effect's face and, one could safely assume, was an attempt to mimic the stomp-friendly design of Boss effects pedals, and 2) an expanded output, which "caused the tube screamer to be a bit brighter and less 'smooth'," according to a wonderfully detailed article on the Analog Man site. If the TS9 varies only slightly from the TS808 in design, the two couldn't be more distinct in the component used to manufacture the pedals, which is important to note since component choice has an unquestionable affect on sound. As the Premier Guitar article, referenced in the first installment of this here post, has it: "one drawback of the new Tube Screamer…was that TS9s were built with a somewhat random sourcing of parts-basically whatever was readily available at the time of manufacture." This resulted in considerable tonal variation between each batch produced; weighing in on the issue, Mike Piera, the "Analog Man," writes that "the TS-9s were put together with seemingly random op-amp chips, instead of the JRC-4558 which is called for in the schematics. Some of these sound BAD, especially the JRC 2043DD chips."
Ironically enough, Ibanez and parent company, Hoshino, made a name for itself in the late 60s and early 70s for producing Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker knockoffs. Nisshin, the Japanese outfit that supplied pickups for some of Ibanez's ersatz instruments, was in fact the company that manufactured the first Tube Screamer, and other effects, for Ibanez, but as result of an interesting if somewhat vague arrangement between Nisshin and Ibanez/Hoshino, "Nisshin was allowed to market its own line of effects, which were identical to those it made for Ibanez," as Tucker writes. In 1979, the fist Tube Screamer, TS808, debuted and was quickly picked up by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and other guitar greats.
But upon its release, the TS9 was not necessarily received with arms open. As John Lomas, the former product manager at Ibanez, puts it to Premier Guitar's Lindsey Tucker, the unveiling of the TS9 "was not a magical moment by any stretch of the imagination…. The public didn't give a rat's ass-not for the longest time. It caught on much later. I would say guys really started talking about it in the late '80s, and by 1990 it was really starting to roll along." Because the TS9 failed to really take off on its debut, Ibanez discontinued the pedal in 1985, after only about three years on the market. But the Tube Screamer wasn't gone for long; after putting out Super Tube STL, which wasn't branded as a Tube Screamer but a part of the Master Series and contained the same circuitry as the Tube Screamer and an additional two-band EQ, Ibanez released the TS10. Which, unfortunately, was a complete flop. As Lindsey Tucker writes, the TS10 was developed with "with quieter circuitry that eliminated the vexatious chirp that older Tube Screamers sometimes emitted when all the controls were turned up. However, these alterations affected the burgeoning star's signature tone, and the TS10 wasn't as well received as Hoshino hoped." Even Piera has a particular distaste for the TS10, complaining to Tucker, "I still hate [the TS10]…. They used cheap, proprietary parts-jacks, switches, and pots that often break and can't be replaced, because the sturdy parts used in handmade, handwired pedals like the TS9 won't fit. They have circuit boards that have all these parts mounted on them that break off, just so they could make pedals cheaply with machine soldering."
But despite Ibanez's failure with the TS10, the classic sounds of the TS808 and TS9 began rearing their heads in the music and guitar work of beloved artists like Stevie Ray Vaughn and U2's The Edge. In the early 1990s, the Tube Screamer's distinctive sonic crunch became once more a sought-after commodity, prompting Ibanez to return to its roots.
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When the tomb of King Tutankhamen was discovered in 1922, it was only a matter of time before his story (or some exotic fabrication thereof) would reach the screen. This F.B.O. feature had the distinction of being the first King Tut film, and it bears no relation to history. In the absence of her father the pharaoh, the princess (June Elvidge) is ruling over Egypt. She falls in love with Karmet (Malcolm MacGregor), a prince from a neighboring kingdom. Unfortunately, when he comes to the royal gardens he is smitten by the charms of Arvia (Carmel Myers), a dancer. The princess, less than thrilled with this turn of events, orders Arvia to be sacrificed to the crocodiles. The high priest, however, discovers that Arvia is his own daughter and rescues her. He sends her off with Karmet and they go back to his kingdom together. The princess, meanwhile, weds Prince Tut, who becomes king upon her father's death. At 42, Bertram Grassby, who played the boy king, was more than a generation older than the real Tut, who was nine when he became king and 18 at his death.
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Delila Belle Ogle (1867-1924), Henry Elmer Ogle (1870-1947) and James "Jim" Ogle (1875-1897) are the daughter & sons of David P. and Mary May Ogle. They came to OK with their parents in 1884. Delila married Dan Tomlinson and died in Hansford Co. TX. Elmer married Laura Hardwick and died in CA. Jim was struck by lightning while riding his horse in Custer Co. OK and died.


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Beautiful. I love how the yellow just pops right out.
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love the shape of the flower – would love to do a study with one – lots of different angles – guess there is no chance of getting them in the UK tho ;-)
Thank you Robert , the Golden Everlasting is an Australian flower growing Australia wide . It is drought tolerant .a perfect Flower for Australian conditions A wide range of colour forms was developed in Germany in the 1850's according to my plant book so it is very possible they found their way to the UK as well ,hopefully. The petal has the texture and feel of dry paper :-)
do you have the latin name? could be that it is known as something else – can ask my mom (or the local florist/garden centers)
My plant book tells me it is Bracteantha bracteata and Helichrysum bracteatum .( sounds like names that Harry Potter might use ! ) Good hunting :-)
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Thank you greenfrog, a fantastic native that is drought resistant , we Australians should have them growing in all of our gardens:-) ( I have to work on that )
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Arjun Rampal's mentor and pal, designer Rohit Bal, is out of hospital and back home recuperating slowly after a heart attack.
Says Arjun, "It was a scary wake-up call for Rohit. He is recovering. But it will take time. He will now be far more cautious about his health. Who doesn't want to live? We all need to exercise restrain and keep regular hours."
Arjun has two contrasting releases Raajneeti and Housefull coming up one after another. Everyone is wondering why he is missing from the promotional songs of Housefull.
Arjun says, "The 'Apni To Jaise Taise' track is my song. I am very happy with both Raajneeti and Housefull. And now I start shooting for Ra.One and Don 2."
While he's tight-lipped about his roles in both these Shah Rukh Khan starrers, he does let out that his lame character Jasjit in Don 2 will lose his limp in the sequel.
"Don't ask me how. In two years, he just lost it. That's how Farhan Akhtar sees my character. I will go by his vision."
For the villain's role in Ra.One, Arjun will be getting into an elaborate get-up and make-up for the first time.
Argues Arjun, "Why first time? I had a special look for Rock On. I had my hair till my waist. I guess when we do the sequel I'll have to grow my hair again. Or we can say the guy lost his hair while the audience was not looking."
About being cast as a villain, first by Farah Khan in Om Shanti Om then Shah Rukh in Ra. One, Arjun says, "I suppose I've a face that renders itself well to a different kind of villainy. My black characters are not over-the-top."


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I'm not the kind of mom that I thought I would be.
Truth be told, I didn't have very many conscious expectations about what kind of mom I would be. It was shockingly easy for us to have a baby. We didn't have a long wait or struggle before we were pregnant, we just were. Four months after we were married I held a positive pregnancy test in my shaking hands.
Theoretically and practically, we were prepared to be parents. I had worked with children since I was 14. Both my husband and I had friends who with babies and toddlers, both of us wanted a family, and we both had jobs in our fields of study that allowed us the flexibility to change our "five year" plan. We quickly became excited that we were starting our family.
But, somewhere in the flurry of planning, my subterranean mind was working and carving out caves full of ideas. Different visions of myself as a mother had been formed without me thinking through my self-expectations. They came into my mind slowly, in the months following Elias's birth, emerging from the shadows like unexpected ghosts of who I had thought that I would be. I felt guilty about not being the kind of mom that I had somehow constructed in my mind; a combination of a working mom, a stay at home mom, crunchy yoga loving mom, and a mom who was down-to-earth and grounded. I expected that I would be balanced but passionate, emotional but logical, and creative but structured.
The truth is that becoming a mom has been the most joyful but also the most humbling process of my life. I am constantly aware of how little I know and how much I don't understand. I have been physically weak, I have struggled with moments of deep anxiety, and I have found that my personal and professional expectations of myself needed to be drastically modified.
The week before Elias was born I bought bags of frozen fruit and divided them into serving size freezer bags. I though that I would reach into the freezer with one hand and easily make myself a smoothie in the days ahead. Confession, I have yet to use any of them. Instead, I eat bacon, beef and potatoes, and put butter on everything. We joke that my "caloric needs" while breastfeeding match those of a high school freshman.
Four days after Elias was born I was hospitalized for post-partum preeclampsia. In the car on the way to the hospital, I sat in the back seat, holding my newborn's tiny hand and crying because I was afraid. I had never been hospitalized before, and had never had any major health concerns. My blood pressure was so alarmingly high that they immediately made me lie flat in a dark room and started an IV of Magnesium. David and Elias stayed with me in the hospital. David would bring Elias to me to nurse and would hold his tiny face to my breast while I lay on my side in the dark, an IV sending burning fluids into one arm and a blood pressure cuff constricting the other. I couldn't even hold my own baby without supervision. After the first 12 hours of the Magnesium I had a pounding headache, so they gave me oxycodone. Two hours later, when they brought my diner tray, I threw up so hard that I peed all over myself and wet through all the bedding. Tears were streaming down my face while David helped me into the bathroom, while he cleaned me up and changed my adult diaper, while he murmured words of encouragement and love, and while he told me to stop apologizing. I have never felt so disconnected from my body or so physically incapable.
Halfway through our pregnancy we went on a Honeymoon/Babymoon trip to Spain. We rented a car for half of the trip and drove through the Northern Coast, and were constantly amazed at the views of the mountains and the sea.
One day, we were driving up into the mountains to visit an overlook of a large lake, when clouds started rolling in. We couldn't see more that 20 feet in front of us. The road was narrow and we were on the outer side without guardrails. I gasped panicked breaths every time that tour buses broke through the mist, barreling downward at seemingly impossible speeds, passing us with a margin that was too close for comfort. In my anxiety I was convinced that we would be hit by a bus and flip over the side of the mountain. I suddenly knew the fear of losing my child and I felt terrified in a way that I could not control.
I went back to work when Elias was three months old. In the early February mornings I crept out of the house, while the greying light slowly illuminated the brown trees and dirty snow. I was both sad and pathetically grateful that Elias wasn't awake when I left. I would have loved to give him one last snuggle, but I was glad that I did not have to hear him crying as I walked out of the door. I was only working three days a week, but every one of those days felt like a mental and emotional rollercoaster. My brain wasn't engaged in the same way with my work. I was always thinking of when I could get back to my family and always planning the next transition. The early days went like this; wake up, go to work, pump at work, get back to seeing patients, make phone calls while pumping, make sure all my charting was done, pump again, drive to pick up the baby, clean the bottles and pumping equipment for tomorrow, hold my baby, cry with gratefulness and exhaustion, greet my husband when he came home, plan for tomorrow, go to bed, repeat. On my days off, I constantly had a nagging feeling that I needed to be keeping the house clean while simultaneously being 100% present to the baby. But, each week I noticed that my checklist of things at home and at work took a hit, and I felt less and less satisfied with how I was holding it all together.
It is no secret that we were hoping for a different outcome in the Presidential elections last November. (I wrote here about the ways that my faith felt like it was directly challenged by the rhetoric that we heard before, during and after the election.) I thought that maybe, by the time I became a parent, I would have this whole faith thing figured out. Instead, current events in the geopolitical and personal arenas have shown me that a large part of my faith was made up of the need to be in control. Crazy political scenarios, war, pain and suffering, children with cancer, and all the things that we don't understand have been rubbing raw spaces in my heart and mind. I am much more sensitive to these things when I look at my tiny son and think about the future. There are no easy explanations, and my discomfort with these questions has shown me how attached I was to the idea that Faith would somehow make me more comfortable rather than constantly challenging me to look deeper.
Each of these moments has been surprising to me and has made me let go of a different vision of myself. I often feel that I am both "too much," (too emotional, too vulnerable, and too anxious) and "not enough," as a mom. And the truth is that I will never be able to reach those impossible and imaginary standards that I had somehow constructed for myself.
But, when I think of my own mother, I don't think of the metrics of her motherhood. Instead, my childhood memories are full of the feeling of her. I remember how she taught each of us to swim in my grandmother's pool, and how her red highlights caught in the morning sunshine as she brushed her hair on the way to church. I remember the day that she taught us to catch grapes in our mouths, and that she was the only mom that I knew who wanted to climb trees with us. I remember creeping into her side of the bed when I had a bad dream and needed to be held. I remember how much she LOVED to win when we had family game nights. I remember how she walked through my Dad's illness, how she was vulnerable, and how she kept pressing into community even when her Faith felt so difficult. I remember the feeling of my mom, not a checklist of her performance in different areas of life. I remember that I always felt loved. And I think the gift that my mom gave to each of us was that she was so wholeheartedly herself.
So, as I let go of this idealized version of myself, my hope is that I would let myself be emotional and goofy, and that I would eat bacon and dance with my husband in the kitchen. My prayer is that I would be a sincere and safe place for my husband and son as we practice life together, and that the things we haven't figured out yet would not get in the way of the Joy of being a family or the Hope of our faith.
Vulnerability, humility, anxiety, and "to-do" lists aside, I want to soak in the precious moments of life and be myself not "the kind of mom I thought I would be."
Today, I am sitting next to a huge pile of laundry and Elias is playing on the floor while I type this on my computer. My mother-in-law is on her way to help me this afternoon because we are packing to move out of our apartment at the end of the month. I am going to a yoga class this evening, one of my first classes since I had the baby. It has taken me a long time to get back to any kind of activity after my blood pressure came back down. I am learning to ask for help. I am learning to take time for writing and journaling. I am learning to do what I can when I am at work and when I am at home, and to leave the rest for another day. My friend Kristin says that moms have to "give ourselves grace," which is something that you can only learn to do when you are faced with your own failures... Oooof, that's really uncomfortable. And yet, here I am, learning as I go, that being myself is enough.


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Sick Daze
We're sick again, or at least the Bunster is. He's got a fever and is a lot less energetic than usual, but no symptoms other than that yet. He was fine this morning, feisty and full of energy. He refused to eat any breakfast and went to school with six ounces of milk and four dried cranberries in his tummy, but this is not unusual for him. His appetite veers from small to non-existent pretty regularly. So I'm not even considering possible illness, since he seems just fine.
Two hour later, I get The Call from the Assistant Director.
I scoot over there and the poor little Bunster is huddled forlornly in an office chair with his head draped over the arm, too listless to lift his head. If he were 12, it could have been a stellar performance, but with pre-schoolers, it's always the real thing, alas.
So we come home, he drinks a little more milk and refuses all offers of food. I take his temperature, which is 101, and give him some tylenol. And then he goes right to bed, without complaint. He's been asleep for about two hours now.
With so little to go on, I'm warring between optimism and despair. "Maybe it's just a bug and he'll be fine by tomorrow!" Or "Maybe he's really sick and will miss the Girl Next Door's party next weekend and I won't be able to do any work all week."
I pay some bills, go online to kill my pointless thinking and immediately find a blog talking about whether to send sick kids to school anyway and how hard it is to be a working parent. Which is true, but not what I want to be reading right now.
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I had wanted to write about how much Matthew enjoys whenever someone passes gas. He finds it quite amusing, and has been having a fabulous time playing with his brothers whoopee cushion. He sits on it, giggles, sits on it again, more giggling, and on and on.
I also wanted to write about how on Wednesday morning Noah came to me with his beloved water/gel filled spider ball to tell me that the paint had chipped and I had to look real close to see the coolest thing ever. The ball popped in both our faces, drenching us and the living room as well. We had to rush to change our clothes to meet the school bus and I had to call his teacher to let her know that he was having a very rough start to his day.
Instead I think it is more important to write about my appointment on Wednesday for the follow up ultrasound. We had a long list of errands to run, and the ultrasound fell in the middle. We had hoped to be in and out quickly so we could get on with all we had to do.
The ultrasound tech who is normally quite chatty fell silent as soon as the screen turned on. After awhile I looked over and noticed that the baby hadn't grown much since the last ultrasound and commented, "the baby looks so small". She pursed her lips and still said nothing. After awhile she said, "I can't not tell you, there are no fetal heart tones." I told her that I was seeing movement. She zoomed in and explained that my pulse was rocking the baby, and then it was clear. She narrowed in on the heart and it was still. Another technician and doctor came in to confirm, and then I was sent to the doctor's office.
The doctor gave me two options. The first was to be induced and deliver that fetus myself, and the other was to go into the OR and have him remove it, which promised to be the messier and riskier option. We went home to prepare. When Gary told the kids what was happening Noah replied, "I knew this was going to be a really bad day!" Katherine was inconsolable. Later that evening she had recovered enough to attend the Father Daughter Dance and had a good time except for the five minutes or so when she "missed Erin."
The next morning I was admitted, after being congratulated several times by the admission staff because I was going into the birthing center. The nurses on the unit were amazing and I am so grateful for the support they offered us. The induction started around 10, I think, and by 8 that evening I still wasn't dilating, but the bleeding was profound. My body was completely shot. The medication they gave me had terribly side effects and I was feeling them all, in addition to all of the contractions. The doctor started saying that surgery was necessary, but would agree to another twenty minutes, then another. Then people were telling me that the amount of blood that I had lost was very concerning. I asked the nurse what was going to happen. She replied compassionately, "If you keep bleeding, I think you know what is going to happen." By this point I was sobbing. I could NOT go into the OR. We (okay, I) convinced the doctor to try a little pictocin before we headed off, but by the time he returned with the pit Gary had convinced me that I needed the surgery. He went out into the hallway to sign the consent form and I asked him "did you sign my life away?"
The doctor agreed to try and avoid a vacuum extraction and agreed to attempt to remove the fetus by hand so we could have a chance to see it. I also made him promise to save the fetes and placenta for me to examine after surgery. I had been telling him all day "I need X, Y, and Z for my mental health" and most of X, Y, and Z involved not having him touch me or tell me what to do, and most of it was surprisingly well received. We agreed that we would keep the lines of communication open.
I tried to sit up to get on the stretcher and it was all I could do to keep conscious. I could barely move. They wanted me to decide between a spinal block and general anesthesia. Just when I though I knew what I wanted more information would hit me. Headache, paralysis, trachea tube, death augh! None of it sounded good. I still hadn't chosen by the time we reached the OR. I was so thirsty, the contractions we extremely intense, and there was a lot of pressure in my bottom, so I asked the doctor to check one more time before we started. The anesthesiologist was insistent that I drink about an ounce of the most vile liquid you have ever tasted. I told them I was too overwhelmed right now; I just couldn't, unless of course it came with a water chaser. The nurse said it was just like a lime shot. I said more like a vomit shot. She said no, it tastes limey. I said actually it tasted more vomitey. Then something went into my IV "Did you just give me something?" I asked as I willingly drank the poison, and that is the last thing that I remember. Although I have heard that I started yelling about how it was all a conspiracy with the pharmaceutical companies and they were in cahoots with the doctors and it all had to do with Hershey bars. The amused the staff, which is good because when you are unconscious you want the people caring for you to be smiling.
The nest thing I knew I heard "it's over" and my body felt almost normal. I was trying to follow the conversation taking place over my bed about the apartments rented for the doctors from Bangor, no easy feat. Soon after I asked if the baby was removed in one piece and was told yes. The doctor brought a bowl with the placenta and baby so I asked him to take out the baby and put it in a towel for me to hold. The placenta was awful. It was filled with cysts and was as much white as red. The baby didn't look at all like I was expecting it would. First it was smaller, and because it had died weeks before it was very dark. But it had ten perfect microscopic little toes and ten perfect little fingers. It's feet were only half a centimeter long at most.
The doctor came in this morning to tell me that I can go to Florida if I take it very easy because there are hospitals all along the east coast. I thanked him for really listening to me and doing his best to conform to all my wishes. I told him that I felt respected and I appreciated that. He said he was grateful for the compliment. Amazingly I had a great hospital experience.
So now I am going to go lie in bed as I pack and dream about leaving in the morning.
Friday, February 17, 2006
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Ah, the anticipation is killing me! Not only have the tomatoes in my garden reached their full height, (1.2 meters as it says on the seed package, I checked today) they have been budding. I, being the excitable creature I am, have been taking numerous pictures of said buds over the past few days and I believe now is the time to show you some of the best ones...
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Yet another lovely cluster! This photo and the previous photo were taken on July 13.
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Since I recently turned 36, I figured I would make my top list 36 games long. I've been fascinated by video games as long as I can remember, my oldest memories being playing Defender on the Atari 2600 with my Dad. When I think back on all the amazing games I've played over the years, I'm almost tempted to tap out from modern games and just play the classics forever.
These are the 36 games I consider my favorites. They're not necessarily the most important or revolutionary, but the ones that made the biggest impression on me and that I still enjoy playing today. This list is in alphabetical order except for Super Mario 64, which I do consider my favorite game of all time.
Here's to the next 36 years of video games.
Advance Wars: Dual Strike - Nintendo DS, 2005
Banjo-Kazooie - N64, 1998
I love being turned loose in a giant world with loads of collectibles to find. I'm doing it in Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition right now, and it's because of games like Banjo-Kazooie that I'm driven to hunt down every hidden item.
Dead Space - 360/PS3/PC, 2008
Easily one of my favorite games of the last generation.
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - PS2, 2003
When I finally stopped playing the original Disgaea and moved on to… I dunno, Advance Wars 2, probably, the in-game clock was around 250 hours. I've always loved turn-based strategy games and anime, so Disgaea is kind of the best thing. It's a turn-based strategy game that NEVER ENDS. So even though I never got another Final Fantasy Tactics (the GBA games were good but not the same), at least NIS keeps me supplied with Disgaea games. I love them all, but the first one is my favorite.
DoDonPachi - Arcade, 1997
I love manic "bullet hell" shooters, and this is probably my favorite. Unfortunately, unless you've been to a Japanese arcade or do some emulation you might not have played it. The chunky sprites really do it for me.
Donkey Kong - Game Boy, 1994
This under-appreciated Donkey Kong might be the best in the series. It starts out modestly following the arcade classic, but where that one would have ended, this Game Boy version opens up into a giant puzzle platformer. Donkey Kong Game Boy was the predecessor to the excellent Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.
Donkey Kong Jr. - Arcade, 1982
An improvement on the original, I think. How cool is it to flip the script and make the villain the damsel in distress and the former hero a new bad guy, seemingly unable to learn from his defeated opponent's mistakes? Plus, I love Jr's little face.
Einhander - PS1, 1998
How great was Squaresoft? Those were the days. Einhander is probably the best 2D shooter ever released on a console. Fantastic soundtrack, too.
Final Fantasy Tactics - PS1, 1998
Yes, Squaresoft released both Einhander and Final Fantasy Tactics in the same year. It's a real shame we never got a true sequel to this, one of the greatest turn-based strategy games of all time.


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Yesterday's Avengers: Age of Ultron poster release was a bit messy, an image full of Photoshopped characters that hopefully isn't indicative of a movie that's too full of characters as well. But today Robert Downey, Jr. has debuted the first character poster, featuring Iron Man of course, and it's a much nicer, streamlined piece. Check it out:
You've been good so here's a new #IronMan poster from @Avengers. & on the DL, big announcement in 8 days… #getexcited pic.twitter.com/AdB1tTib7K
— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) February 25, 2015
As for the "big announcement in 8 days" that RDJ promises in that tweet, who can say what it is? You have to figure Disney and Marvel will be dropping more character posters between now and then, all leading up to… something. A new trailer? Our first real, official look at the Vision? A Spider-Man news item of some kind?! Well, probably not the latter… though with Marvel, I wouldn't rule anything out.
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General cargo vessel SIBIRSKIY 2112 detention. Is it care for the crew, or privacy breach?
General cargo vessel SIBIRSKIY 2112 on Feb 6 was detained in Oristano, Italy, following the inspection of living and working conditions. Main deficiencies include some drinking fountain inoperative, naked electric wires in some cabins, lack of mattresses and hot water in some cabins, one crew occupying infirmary.
It may be considered as care for crew, but it may be considered as an insulting encroachment. After all, isn't mattress a personal business? Isn't cabin a home? Why anyone with the authority can breach privacy, with whatever good intentions he claims he has? Don't we know, that MLC and its' requests more often, than not, are used for forcing owners into ITF agreements? Isn't it just humiliating, on a personal, human level? Are seamen children to be looked after because they can't care for themselves? What is to come next, checking how do they wipe themselves after using a toilet?
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Some say that in the final days of your life the one thing that will matter most to you is your family. That recently had me reflecting on what a true family is and what it looks like. I don't have a large biological family. In fact, like most of you reading this article, my biological family is fairly dysfunctional.
As I scroll through my list of Facebook "friends" I tried to capture how I know each person and what part of my family they fall into. Some folks I've known a long time, some a short time, and some for a good time (i.e. funny memes). Some people I've never even met in person, but we share a common thread in life, and have connected through a virtual web. I receive friend requests from complete strangers and also from people I haven't talked to in a long time. I tend to believe, and have found it to be true, that every person comes into your life for a reason and a season.
As I reflected on these thoughts for this article, the one glaring truth to all of this is that I'm incredibly fortunate to have such a great family. My drag racing family has been an absolute blessing to my life and I'm amazed by how we all come together in times of need. A friend that I recently met had a major medical episode that hospitalized him. I was reminded of the frailty of life and I was also amazed by the outpouring of support from friends and family. He is currently recovering and I must believe that all the prayers and supportive words have had power in this turn around.
Most of you know that this has been an incredibly challenging year for the No Mercy Nitro Funny Car as we made some unforeseen changes at the start of the year. As it is, we are attempting to do something that is incredibly difficult and we have struggled to find the success we are searching for. Some "friends" probably look for us to fail, as sometimes that is the natural reaction when you see someone attempting something as challenging as this. Ultimately, far more have supported and encouraged us through this difficult time. I am amazed by the words of persistence and perseverance that came from some of the most unlikely places. A simple, "Don't quit, you can do it" text from Tim Wilkerson, supportive words from Jeff Arend, Robert Hight, John Keigley, Robert Schwab, Chad Head, Chris Nance, John Hale, Bobby Cottrell, Brandon Welch, Brian & Ron Hope, and so many more. I hate to leave other names out because there are many of you that continue to offer encouraging words. Many people that I served with in the military wrote to remind me that since they've known me that this has been my dream, and to never quite. Understanding sponsors never pressure us to perform and continue to stand next to us as we make difficult decisions. Crewmembers, past and current, continue to refer me to our team mantra that supports our dream; persistence, perseverance, NO MERCY!
Sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees. Much is the case with what we are currently accomplishing. For some, the fact that we've managed to put together a complete ready to run pro NHRA nitro funny car, is a goal achieved. For others, making a handful of runs down the strip, is a goal accomplished. Maybe once I've achieved the license upgrade notch, the goal will be accomplished. Or possibly, qualifying for the first national event will be the pinnacle of this journey. This dream is quite elusive as the goal post will continue to move further and further away the closer we get, much like it should. There's a reason that John Force continues to pound the pavement every weekend.
Family Reunions
Every race, event, show, or racing get together is a family reunion of sorts as the drag racing family from around the world comes together in one location. It is incredibly warming to reunite with racing friends from around the world and catchup on everything we missed. Even though I grew up in a racing family in the U.S., my racing career started in England. Even though I didn't know a single person in that country, the fact that I built a car and took it to a dragstrip immediately made me a part of a family. I was adopted into their family and given a name, WB17. It's always a pleasure to see those great folks when they cross the pond to attend a race in the US.
Going to a race track is always something I look forward to as I know that I will see someone that I know. We may not always agree on politics, global warming, or whether a Prius deserves to be in the fast lane, but I know at the end of the day we agree on one thing; Drag Racing. We share a common bond and we are friends. A friendly face in a sea of disgruntled angry people.
Who are your heroes? When I was a young red-headed, buck toothed, pale skinned kid riding my Huffy (couldn't afford a GT) bike around the pits of Orange County, Riverside, Irwindale, Carlsbad, Palmdale, Pomona, etc., my heroes were The Snake, John Force, Brad Anderson, Rod Hynes, Chuck Beal, Kenny Bernstein, Ray Higley, and many many more. One person rose well above all of them as the best drag racer in the world and that was my dad, Jeff Bennett. In my mind, there wasn't anybody else out there as talented as him, somebody just needed to give him a chance.
It makes me incredibly proud that all of these years later I've been able to carry on his heritage and dream while doing it with him right next to me. I used to always think that if I could be as half as good of a driver as him, I'd be pretty damn good. My dad is my best friend and we have built a special bond that was forged over a monstrous hemi in the garage.
Folks, whomever your hero is, they are not getting any younger, which is why you need to take the time to be around them. Every year, the drag racing GREATS are making their final pass. Take the opportunity to support events that bring out the drag racing GREATS such as Steve Gibbs' Nitro Revival at Barona Dragstrip on September 30th (http://nitrorevival.com/).
Thank You
The main purpose of writing this is to tell you THANK YOU. If you've made it to the end of this diatribe, then I thank you for your friendship and support. Maybe we've only known each other a short time, but just by reading the words that I've put to print, I thank you. Your friendship is dear and sweet to me and I'm grateful to know you my friend. Welcome to my family!


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My Grandma once showed me a picture she has of me taking a picture. We were visiting the tulip fields near where I was raised in Washington and I was holding my mom's precious film SLR catching what was probably a mediocre image of the ocean of flowers there every spring. My mom was always willing to let me try my hand at it, even though I was probably better at wasting film then getting good pictures back then! She did of course have some limits. I had to tell her what I was going to take a picture of before she would even let me lay a finger on that coveted piece of equipment. Sometimes she obliged my request and sometimes she didn't. At the time I wasn't really excited about being told no. (who is?) But it did help me become more discerning about what I even asked about. I would walk around composing pictures, and gradually I started recognizing the pictures that I knew she wouldn't let me take. I didn't ask so often (but, oh, how I wanted to!) and slowly but surely I started learning how to make photographs.
I'm certainly still learning. It's been said that "The more you know, the more you know you don't know" and boy is that a fact! I'm trying to keep learning to improve my photos and this seemed an excellent place to document that. Fools Gold is a place for this silly old fool to keep track of her treasure.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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My favorite thing about photography is how it's changed the way I view the world around me. I feel like I'm so much more aware of the details. And yes, I could't agree more that the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't. HA! I've only dabbled in the past, until a couple of years ago when I bought my own SLR. I feel like such a novice, but then I look at how far I've come, and I get stoked. I love the constant learning and growth. Great blog, Katie! I'm excited about it.ReplyDelete
Thanks Melinda! I'm in the same boat as you, I've always love photography because it makes me see things I didn't before, but I've only gotten serious about it recently! I'm glad I'm not the only one excited about this blog!ReplyDelete
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Amie - posted on 08/17/2010 ( 17 moms have responded )
I am 35 years old, single and a foster parent. I love and adore my foster children and would do anything for them. Last year a 10 year old child that I had in my care since she was a baby went to live with her biological father. It happened very quickly and was very upsetting. Since then I have discovered that it is legal for single women in my area to have IVF. The 2 children I still have in my care are aged 4 and 6 and I have long term care orders for them until they are 18. However it is always in the back of my mind that they could be taken away. I would just like to have a child that is mine that can't be taken away. I am wondering what others think of this?


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When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn't appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client's pursuer is: a British investigator has been engaged to probe into Greta's life. But the question of what he is trying to discover about Greta, and why, begins to truly complicate the case. This revelation soon opens up further questions about Greta's own identity and, more specifically, the identities of her mother and father. Lucy's investigation leads her to Cornwall, England, where there still live witnesses to Greta's birth and her father's death. Lucy slowly begins to put the fragments of the puzzle together, but it is only when Greta joins Lucy in England that she is able to find the missing piece, and begins to confront her own rapidly evolving and more complicated personal life.
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Wright has written nearly a dozen mysteries featuring Canadian detective Charlie Salter. Now he debuts a new series with Lucy Trimble, a suburban housewife who has left her philandering husband and set up her own detective agency in Toronto. Lucy quickly learns that her previously sheltered existence has barely prepared her for the sordid real world. Lucy's client, Greta Golden, is being followed by a mysterious stranger, whom Lucy is hired to identify. Soon Lucy finds herself involved in a paternity case and a sinister, decades-old death. Her investigation takes her from a Toronto craft fair to the cliffs of England's Cornwall, and in the process, she not only discovers the identity of the mysterious stranger but she also reunites Greta with a family she never knew she had. Wright's latest is a cleverly plotted, engaging story with a heroine who's oddly naive but sweetly appealing. There's not much action or suspense, but for those who enjoy British cozies, this one is a treat. --Emily Melton
Publisher's Weekly Review
In his second Lucy Trimble mystery (after Death of a Sunday Writer), WrightÄauthor of the popular Charlie Salter seriesÄtests his unseasoned detective with a couple of perplexing cases. Canadian sleuth Lucy is hired by well-to-do Greta Golden to find out more about a man who is hanging around asking questions about her. When Lucy goes undercover and meets him, she finds out he's a fellow detective and gets him to reveal that he was hired by a British law firm to investigate Greta's background, as she may be an heir to a recently deceased and wealthy man. Greta has always thought she was an only child with no living relatives, so she is intrigued to learn she may have family members in England. She rehires Lucy, this time to fill in the gaps in her parents' histories. In Britain, Lucy exhumes an old story of two sisters and the man they loved, a tale of jealousy and murder. A subplot involving the odd behavior of a drugstore owner adds a riddle to this otherwise straightforward mystery. Though Wright's descriptions of Canada and England aren't exceptional, his well-rounded characters, lyric if low-key prose and subtle humor transforms Lucy's burgeoning caseload into a piece of satisfying suspense. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Death of a Sunday Writer (Foul Play, 1996) introduced a new series featuring a part-time librarian who inherits a Toronto detective agency. In her second case, Lucy Trimble searches for a suspicious man who has been asking questions about her client, a pottery wholesaler. Recommended for all collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Lyon, France – July 27, 2015 – Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced today that new data analyses published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) provide a comprehensive picture of the potential public health impact of vaccinating endemic populations from pre-adolescence to adulthood against dengue. Not only is this the largest population at risk of dengue globally, but individuals 9 years of age and older also represent a highly mobile group capable of spreading disease more broadly during outbreaks and also contributing substantially to the economic burden of dengue, for example in number of lost school and work days due to the disease.
The NEJM article reported results from a new pooled efficacy analysis of individuals 9 years of age and older at vaccination from the two Phase III studies of Sanofi Pasteur's dengue vaccine. The new analysis documented that the vaccine protects two-thirds of these individuals (66%) against dengue, providing even greater protection against two clinically-relevant manifestations of dengue, namely severe dengue (93%) and prevention of hospitalizations due to dengue (80%) that account for the greatest human and economic burden of dengue in endemic countries. In addition, the dengue vaccine candidate protected volunteers 9 years of age and older who were previously exposed to dengue (82%), as well as those who were naïve to dengue (52.5%) prior to vaccination.
The clinical development program for the vaccine candidate includes studies with four-year, long-term follow-up phases, in line with WHO guidelines for dengue vaccine development. Results from first 25 months of the two Phase III efficacy studies were published in 2014.4,5 Interim data from the third year of these studies and interim data from the third and fourth years of the Phase II extension study in Thailand published in the new NEJM article confirm the continuing reduction of hospitalized dengue in the vaccinated population 9 years of age and older.
The third-year interim data from the Asian Phase III study identified the need for further long-term surveillance in children under 9 years of age to assess the impact of the dengue vaccine candidate in these younger children.
"It is not unusual to require additional data on a new vaccine to determine its value in a specific age group, particularly young children, whose immune response to the vaccine and the disease itself may differ significantly from that of older children and adults," notes Professor Tim Endy, MD., MPH, Upstate University Hospital, New York. "It is reassuring to have confirmation of the safe protection that this vaccine offers against dengue in the endemic preadolescent to adult population, particularly coupled with its consistent efficacy and safety profile reported last year from the PIII studies across diverse geographic regions, ethnic study populations and dengue epidemiology covered."
Dr. Maria Rosario Capeding from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the Philippines, who is a lead author on the NEJM article, points out the potential public health benefit of having a first dengue vaccine available to protect individuals 9 years of age and older. "This large, at-risk population includes the most dynamic members of the community who have the potential to spread disease widely and also contribute most to dengue's heavy societal impact in terms of school absences and lost work productivity. Certainly, individuals 9 years of age and older represent a compelling target group for an immunization program against dengue aimed at significantly reducing overall disease burden."
Dengue is the world's fastest growing vector-borne disease, endemic in over 100 countries where almost half the world's population resides. Dengue poses considerable economic and human burden in these endemic countries as it is prone to unpredictable outbreaks and spreads readily in densely populated urban areas, often paralyzing local healthcare systems and requiring cost-intensive intervention efforts. Today, no specific treatment or prevention for dengue is available.
The WHO has set objectives to reduce mortality due to dengue by 50% and morbidity by 25% by 2020. Introduction of an effective and safe dengue vaccine as an integral part of dengue prevention efforts will be critical to achieving this goal.
Based on the totality of the safety and efficacy data for its dengue vaccine candidate, Sanofi Pasteur has decided to recommend a targeted age indication for the vaccine of 9 years of age and older in endemic countries, where the combination of disease burden and the vaccine's proven impact profile in this age group point to the greatest potential for reduction of dengue disease burden in these countries.
1 L'Azou M, Moureau A, Sarti E, et al. Incidence of symptomatic pediatric dengue in ten Asian and Latin American countries. . N Engl J Med 2015; Manuscript resubmitted.
2 L'Azou M, Taurel AF, Flamand C, Quenel P. Recent epidemiological trends of dengue in the French territories of the Americas (2000-2012): a systematic literature review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2014;8:e3235.
3 San Martin JL, Brathwaite O, Zambrano B, et al. The epidemiology of dengue in the americas over the last three decades: a worrisome reality. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2010;82:128-35.
4 Capeding M.R. et.al, Clinical efficacy and safety of a novel tetravalent dengue vaccine in healthy children in Asia: a phase 3, randomised, observer-masked, placebo-controlled trial ; Volume 384, Issue 9951, 11–17 October 2014, Pages 1358–1365
5 Villar L, Dayan GH, Arredondo-Garcia JL, Rivera DM, Cunha R, Deseda C et al. Efficacy of a tetravalent dengue vaccine in children in Latin America. N Engl J Med. 2015


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Vanessa Marano To Return As April Nardini on 'Gilmore Girls' Revival
You heard right — Vanessa Marano is on board for Netflix's revival of Gilmore Girls, JJJ can confirm.
The 23-year-old Switched At Birth actress starred as April Nardini, the surprise daughter of Luke Danes (Scott Patterson) and Anna Nardini on the original show during seasons six and seven.
The last we saw April, she was off with her mom Anna to live in New Mexico with her grandparents. However, Luke fights Anna for joint custody of April and wins — getting to spend time with her Christmas or Thanksgiving, spring break, and a month of the summer.
Vanessa joins a slew of other original stars including Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop, Yanic Truesdale, Liza Weil, Keiko Agena, Jared Padelecki, Matt Czuchry, Milo Ventimiglia, and David Sutcliffe.
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Robbery sees halls closed in attempt to catch gang.
Diamonds worth several millions of pounds were stolen from a stand at the BaselWorld show yesterday morning, following a successful distraction-type robbery which could have involved up to five people.
It is believed that Messika's stand had screws removed from its showcases during the night, and the following morning the glass was lifted with $15m (£9.3m) worth of diamonds stolen.
Markus Melzl, spokesman of Basel's prosecutor's office said: "On Wednesday, 30 March 2011, at around 11:00 am, one of the as yet still unidentified perpetrators distracted an employee of a diamond trader in the exhibition hall 3.0, and stole four diamonds worth millions from the display window."
Following the robbery – which took place in the Jewellery & Related Products hall, home to fine diamonds and gemstones, the hall was closed for 30 minutes to prevent the theives from escaping – but it appeared they had already fled the building.
"Apparently, the perpetrators successfully left the hall with the stolen goods," said Melzl. "Three diverted the attention of the diamond trader's employees, while two others opened the showcase," he said.
There is a suggestion that the theives had already scouted out the stand in the days before, enabling them to plan the robbery and escape easily. Melzl described the robbery as very professional.
Melzl noted that the Israeli trader realised the diamonds were missing about 15 minutes after the robboery took place, giving the theives plenty of time to get away.
Police are examining closed-circuit camera footage and looking into possible DNA traces and fingerprints.
Some 1,892 exhibitors from 45 countries, including luxury brands such as Chopard, Patek Philippe, and Rolex as well as jewellery makers like Bulgari and Tiffany, are showcasing their latest creations over 160,000 square metres at the Baselworld fair until Thursday.
The fair, which is open to the public, has been the targeted by thieves on several occasions. In 2009, a robber stole 13 million francs (10 million euros) of jewellery, but was rapidly caught. In 2007, thieves made away with more than a million francs worth of jewellery.


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James Silver is Deputy Chief for Litigation of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In this role, he oversees prosecutions commenced nationwide by the Section's attorneys, which involve offenses including computer intrusion, wire fraud, identity theft, cyberstalking, trade secret theft, counterfeiting, and copyright offenses.
Mr. Silver obtained the first-ever conviction of a foreign hacker for stealing trade secret information from a U.S. corporate victim. He also was part of the team that obtained the first-ever charges against uniformed members of a foreign military for stealing trade secrets from U.S. victims.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Mr. Silver served as anti-piracy counsel at a publicly-traded technology company, and worked at a law firm and the Federal Trade Commission. He also served as a federal law clerk. Mr. Silver received his law degree and a Master's degree in English literature from Duke University, and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
Mr. Silver has received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service, and twice received the Assistant Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service.
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MODERN BLUES advanced blues reharmonizations & melodic ideas Saunders CD GUITAR TABLATURE SPARTITI
MODERN BLUES, advanced blues reharmonizations & melodic ideas. Saunders. SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH CD & GUITAR TABLATURE.
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Modern Blues is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and a CD is included in which the more difficult exercises are played at a slower as well as faster tempo. The CD was recorded with live drums, acoustic bass and guitar. All the exercises are included on the CD as well as many practice tracks that enable the student to play with a rhythm section. The book covers such topics as reharmonization, exotic chord/scale combinations, intervallic and triadic exercises, alternate pentatonic suggestions and exercises and many other topics.
Product Number: 20415BCD
Format: Book/CD Set
Series: Private Lessons Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 1/17/2004
Chapter One: simple harmonic ideas
Form: major blues
Harmonic elaboration: major blues
Arpeggio ideas, Ex. 1 F blues
Arpeggio ideas, Ex. 2 Bb blues
Arpeggio ideas, Ex. 3 F blues
Arpeggio ideas, Ex. 4-6
Motivic arpeggios, Ex. 7-9
Chapter Two: fourths
F mixolydian four-note fourth voicings explanation/example, Ex. 10
Bb mixolydian four-note fourth voicings, Ex. 11
F# melodic minor four-voice fourths explanation/example, Ex. 12
Db & Eb Melodic minor four-note fourth voicings, Ex. 13-14
Study #1, blues in F, comping four-note fourths
Study #2, blues in F, comping four-note fourths
Three-note fourth voicings, Ex. 15-16
F#, Eb, & Db melodic minor three-note fourth voicings, Ex. 17-19
Study #3, blues in F, comping three-note fourth voicings
Arpeggiated three-note fourths, Ex. 20
Study #4, comping three-note fourths, blues in F
Arpeggiated three-note fourths, Ex. 21, blues in F
Eb lydian, three-note fourth voicings
Study #5 (Blues for J.T.)
Ex. 22 one chorus solo ala Joe Henderson on Blues for J.T.
Chapter Three: minor blues
Ex. 23 Gmi7 pentatonic scale against Cmi7 chord
Ex. 24 C minor blues form
Ex. 25 dominant b7b13 chord and harmonic minor
Ex. 26 C harmonic minor exercise
Study #6 C minor blues
Study #7 5/4 C minor blues groups of 3 over 5
Chapter Four: more complex harmonic ideas
Charlie Parker style F blues
Study #8 Parker blues exphasizing upper-structure
Ex. 27 Coltrane blues changes
Ex. 28 Cycle blues changes
Study #9 Bb blues with Coltrane changes
Appendix A: practice tracks
Practice tracks 36-41, F, Bb and G blues
Practice tracks 42-47, Db, C minor and C minor 5/4 blues
Practive tracks 48-53, F Parker blues, F and Bb Coltrane blues
Appendix B: alternate vertical elements
Ex. 29, Alternate pentatonic vertical elements, G minor pentatonic
Ex. 30, C minor pentatonic alternate voicings
Ex. 31, G minor pentatonic fourth voicings
Ex. 32, C minor pentatonic fourth voicings
Ex. 33, C harmonic minor fourth voicings
Ex. 34, F harmonic minor fourth voicings, Ex. 35, C harm. Minor non-fourth voicings


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A Sun Staff Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton is challenging one of Donald Trump's first acts as president.
Moulton -- who represents Billerica, Tewksbury, Wilmington and other area communities -- introduced legislation on Wednesday that would prohibit a hiring freeze from affecting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Moulton, who filed the legislation with Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon, served four tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer.
Trump has signed an executive order implementing a 90-day hiring across the executive branch, including at the VA.
"President Trump's hiring freeze will have a severe and lasting impact on the VA's ability to care for our nation's veterans," Moulton said in a statement. "All of the progress the VA has made on reducing wait times will come to a screeching halt.
"The freeze affects all aspects of care from doctors and nurses to schedulers and security guards," he added. "Anyone who's spent time at the VA learning about their problems -- as I have and the Trump team has not -- knows that filling critical positions and recruiting top talent with a passion for serving our veterans as quickly and efficiently as possible is one of their biggest challenges, even bigger than firing the bad apples."
On Tuesday, Trump's press secretary doubled down on the hiring freeze at the VA.
"I think the VA in particular, if you look at the problems that have plagued people, hiring more people isn't the answer, it's hiring the right people, putting the procedures in place that ensure that our veterans -- whether health care or mortgages or the other services that VA provides to those who have served our nation -- get the services that they've earned," Sean Spicer said.
Moulton said there are thousands of vacancies at the VA across the country, including hundreds of primary care providers and nurse practitioner vacancies.
"It's telling of President Trump's character that on day one in the Oval Office he chose to leave our veterans behind," Moulton said in the statement. "I am introducing legislation to block this hiring freeze at the VA. Our veterans deserve nothing but the best care."


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Author pushes for O'Doul
THERE'S A 1933 Goudey card on the back cover, and sprinkled throughout the book are several other vintage baseball cards, including 1918, 1925 and 1927 Zeenuts and a 1952 Mother's Cookies.
Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul is pictured on each of the cards, and, since he was once, perhaps, the best-known man in San Francisco, his visage should be familiar to Bay Area sports fans.
Should be, but probably isn't, since he died in 1969, which makes him more or less ancient athletic history.
That may change - a little, at least - with the publication of "Lefty O'Doul - The Legend That Baseball Nearly Forgot," a labor of love by Pacific Grove writer Richard Leutzinger.
Leutzinger began writing his book in 1988, with the premise that O'Doul had been wronged by not being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Clearly, he still feels that way, and the evidence he offers on O'Doul's behalf is strong.
Lefty's lifetime batting average was .349, fourth-best ever behind Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby and Shoeless Joe Jackson. He won two National League batting titles, and in 1929 he batted .398, the highest this century by a National League outfielder, and had 254 hits, a total that has never been bettered in the league. He also had 32 home runs and 122 RBIs while, amazingly, striking out just 19 times.
O'Doul's possible election to the hall has been hampered by the relative shortness of his career (11 major-league seasons, four of them including duty as a less-than-successful pitcher), and his less-than-sterling fielding ability. As Bob Stevens of the Chronicle once wrote: "He could run like a deer. Unfortunately, he threw like one, too."
But, over and above his remarkable hitting prowess, O'Doul made major contributions to baseball at many levels, perhaps more than any other baseball figure - and far more than enough to merit serious consideration for induction into the Hall.
He often has been called the father of baseball in Japan, because he made more than 30 visits to promote the sport in that country, and advised the founder of Japan's first professional league.
He managed for 23 years in five Pacific Coast League cities, including a long stint in San Francisco and a short one in Oakland.
And, along with Hornsby, he was acknowledged as the best hitting instructor of his day, tutoring the likes of Joe and Dom DiMaggio and two-time American League batting champion Ferris Fain and giving early advice to Ted Williams when he broke into baseball in the PCL.
Leutzinger plans to send a copy of his new book to the Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee, which votes on oldtimers, to try to show them the error of their ways in bypassing O'Doul.
The book, a softcover from Carmel Bay Publishing Group, is filled with historic artifacts and photos, many of them from the unparalleled Dick Dobbins PCL collection.
This and that
Second baseman Tony Batista of the A's has been named to Topps' 38th annual Major League Rookie All-Star team. Catcher Jason Kendall of Pittsburgh was the only unanimous choice, with American League Rookie of the Year Derek Jeter of the Yankees missing unanimous election by just one vote.<


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A list of frequently asked questions around the subject of probate including scope of the accreditation, eligibility and ongoing requirements.
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consider the impact of any employees 'holding out' as principals.
If your firm is considering the appointment of a new principal, incorporating the firm, or changing the structure and/or ownership of the firm, it could have an impact on eligibility. Please discuss the implications of any intended changes with our regulatory support team +44 (0)1908 546 302 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Probate Regulations require firms to inform ICAEW as soon as practicable, but not later than 10 business days, after any event affecting the firm's eligibility to be accredited. Otherwise, disciplinary action may be taken.
No. Schedule 2 paragraph 6 of the Legal Services Act 2007 defines probate activities as preparing any probate papers for the purposes of the law of England and Wales. Probate papers are papers on which to found or oppose a grant of probate (or grant of letters of administration).
Additionally, some firms have not fully appreciated that authorised work covers both probate and estate administration. While the Probate Regulations only require probate work to be undertaken or controlled by an authorised individual (AI), there are various other requirements of the regulations which mean that it is sensible for the AI (or HOLP/HOFA) to have an understanding of what authorised work is being done under their accreditation, ie, including estate administration, to ensure compliance with the probate regulations more generally.
Ultimately the AI/HOLP/HOFA will be held to account if the firm fails to meet its obligations under the regulations. So, while they might delegate aspects of 'undertaking or controlling' authorised work (regulation 3.3 stipulates that they can't delegate this for probate work), they still need to know what work is being done and how it is controlled to comply with other aspects of the regulations and to be able to demonstrate that to us.
Always consider your firm's competence and independence before you take on probate and estate administration work. Our Ethical considerations for probate practitioners helpsheet will help with this decision process. Proprietary probate systems also have checklists to prompt your firm with these considerations and ensure you gather all the necessary information.
Yes. These must be dealt with in accordance with our Clients' Money Regulations as specified in the Probate Regulations. Specifically, monies received in connection with authorised work must be kept separate from other clients' monies in a designated account. Each engagement for which monies are received in connection with authorised work must be held in a separate, individually designated account.
Yes. All authorised individuals need to keep their skills up to date with appropriate CPD training. We have found some staff conducting probate work under the supervision of an authorised individual who have not had adequate training.
The Clients' Money Regulations stipulate that bank charges are not clients' money and must be charged to an office account. Therefore you would need obtain agreement from the client, eg, through the engagement letter, to recharge them as a disbursement.
Yes. These must be carried out every year. To be fully effective these reviews should include both whole-firm and cold file reviews. Please refer to the full Probate Regulations for a list of the full requirements for firms authorised and licensed for probate work.
A questionnaire to assist you in complying with this requirement, is available here.
We recommend you time your first annual compliance review to coincide with completion of your ICAEW annual return, and then complete on each anniversary after that.
Yes. If you are a sole practitioner, you must provide your clients with details of your alternate in writing. If you are the sole authorised individual in a larger firm, you need to ensure that your fellow directors/partners understand that should you become indisposed, they will need to arrange for this work to be passed to someone who is eligible to undertake it. You could arrange for the appointment of an alternate in these circumstances and notify the client of this fact, as you would if you were a sole practitioner.
All probate firms must monitor the diversity of its principals and employees. ICAEW will collect this information every two years. Further information including a questionnaire template is available on the Diversity data collection webpage. Your firm's data should be published on your firm's website in a format of your choice. If your firm does not have a website, you must still publish the data on some appropriate form of documentation eg, as a paragraph in a letter of engagement or in advertising materials.
If the anonymity of individual members of staff may be compromised, you should adapt the information you publish accordingly, for example, by only publishing the less sensitive data.
It is a Legal Services Board requirement that ICAEW aims to visit all probate registered firms within two years of granting that firm's license.
The visit will always:
You should ensure that authorised individuals, HOLPs and HOFAs (as applicable) are available for the visit.
Obviously we hope that all firms will have conducted some authorised work by the date of our visit. However, if your firm hasn't undertaken any probate or estate administration work, as part of concluding the visit we will ask you to tell us when you consider an appointment in the future.
Use an engagement letter to advise clients of matters that must be put in writing. These should be sent to the client before starting any probate work. The Probate Regulations stipulate firms must advise clients of:
Further information about what to include in engagement letters is available at here.


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